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, ...

The concept of 'basic’ or ‘primary’ emotions dates back at least to the Book of Rites, a first-century Chinese encyclopaedia that picks out seven ‘feelings of men’: joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, ...

Emotions are related to mood, personality and motivation, and they cause measurable physiological and psychological changes. The study of emotions and feelings is important because they are at the ...

Ekman did not directly address moods but, as we just characterized them, it seems that many of Ekman’s basic emotions have mood equivalents. Joy, sadness and fear, for instance, can certainly occur in ...