The concept of "basic" or "primary" emotions dates back at least to the Book of Rites, a first-century Chinese encyclopedia that identifies seven "feelings of men": joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, ...

Lay presentations of research on emotions often make two claims. First, they assert that all humans develop the same set of core emotions. This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, ...

Evolutionary psychologist Paul Ekman—who achieved international recognition for his “atlas of emotions,” a compendium of more than 10,000 emotion-induced facial expressions—originally argued that ...

We continue exploring the dramatic advances in understanding human nature and personality formation – what we call The Revolution in Infant and Child Development, and its three pillars of Feelings, ...