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Overview of Basic Human Emotions

The document discusses basic emotions and lists various theorists' categorizations of emotions. It provides a list of primary, secondary, and tertiary emotions as described by Parrot in 2001, categorizing emotions into a tree structure with 3 levels: primary emotions like love and their secondary emotions like affection, and tertiary emotions like adoration and attraction. The document aims to outline the range of human emotions as identified across different theories.

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Overview of Basic Human Emotions

The document discusses basic emotions and lists various theorists' categorizations of emotions. It provides a list of primary, secondary, and tertiary emotions as described by Parrot in 2001, categorizing emotions into a tree structure with 3 levels: primary emotions like love and their secondary emotions like affection, and tertiary emotions like adoration and attraction. The document aims to outline the range of human emotions as identified across different theories.

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Basic emotions

Explanations > Emotions > Basic emotions List of emotions | So what

List of emotions
What are the basic emotions? As ever, theorists disagree. Ortony and Turner (1990) collated a wide range of research on identification of basic emotions. Theorist Plutchik Arnold Basic Emotions Acceptance, anger, anticipation, disgust, joy, fear, sadness, surprise Anger, aversion, courage, dejection, desire, despair, fear, hate, hope, love, sadness

Ekman, Friesen, and Anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise Ellsworth Frijda Gray Izard James McDougall Mowrer Desire, happiness, interest, surprise, wonder, sorrow Rage and terror, anxiety, joy Anger, contempt, disgust, distress, fear, guilt, interest, joy, shame, surprise Fear, grief, love, rage Anger, disgust, elation, fear, subjection, tenderemotion, wonder Pain, pleasure

Oatley and JohnsonAnger, disgust, anxiety, happiness, sadness Laird Panksepp Tomkins Watson Weiner and Graham Expectancy, fear, rage, panic Anger, interest, contempt, disgust, distress, fear, joy, shame, surprise Fear, love, rage Happiness, sadness

Here is a deeper list of emotions as described in Parrot (2001), where emotions were categorised into a short tree structure. Primary emotion Love Secondary emotion Affection

Tertiary emotions Adoration, affection, love, fondness, liking, attraction, caring, tenderness,

compassion, sentimentality Lust Longing Arousal, desire, lust, passion, infatuation Longing Amusement, bliss, cheerfulness, gaiety, glee, jolliness, joviality, joy, delight, enjoyment, gladness, happiness, jubilation, elation, satisfaction, ecstasy, euphoria Enthusiasm, zeal, zest, excitement, thrill, exhilaration Contentment, pleasure Pride, triumph Eagerness, hope, optimism Enthrallment, rapture Relief Amazement, surprise, astonishment Aggravation, irritation, agitation, annoyance, grouchiness, grumpiness Exasperation, frustration Anger, rage, outrage, fury, wrath, hostility, ferocity, bitterness, hate, loathing, scorn, spite, vengefulness, dislike, resentment Disgust, revulsion, contempt Envy, jealousy Torment Agony, suffering, hurt, anguish Depression, despair, hopelessness, gloom, glumness, sadness, unhappiness, grief, sorrow, woe, misery, melancholy

Cheerfulness

Zest Joy Contentment Pride Optimism Enthrallment Relief Surprise Surprise Irritation Exasperation

Anger

Rage

Disgust Envy Torment Suffering Sadness

Disappointment Dismay, disappointment, displeasure Sadness Shame Guilt, shame, regret, remorse Alienation, isolation, neglect, loneliness, rejection, homesickness, defeat, dejection, insecurity, embarrassment, humiliation, insult Pity, sympathy Alarm, shock, fear, fright, horror, terror, panic, hysteria, mortification

Neglect

Sympathy Fear Horror

Nervousness

Anxiety, nervousness, tenseness, uneasiness, apprehension, worry, distress, dread

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