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This is a list of emotions.
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Alphabetical list of emotions
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- Acceptance, Agitation, Alarm, Amusement, Anger, Angst, Annoyance, Anticipation, Apprehension, Apathy, Arrogance, Awe, Anxious
- Bitterness, Boredom
- Calmness, Cautiousness, Comfort, Contentment, Confidence, Courage
- Depression, Determination, Disappointment, Discontentment, Disgust, Desire, Delight
- Elation or Euphoria, Embarrassment, Ennui, Envy, Ecstasy
- Fear, Friendship, Frustration
- Glee, Gladness, Gratitude, Grief, Guilt
- Hate, Happiness, Homesickness, Honor, Hope, Horror, Humility
- Impatience, Inadequacy, Irritability
- Joy, Jealousy,
- Kindness
- Loneliness, Love, Lust, Limerence
- Melancholy, Modesty
- Nervousness, Negativity, Nostalgia
- Pain, Paranoia, Patience, Peace, Phobia, Pity, Pride
- Rage, Regret, Remorse, Resentment
- Sadness, Schadenfreude, Self-pity, Shame, Shyness, Sorrow, Shock, Suffering, Surprise, Suspense
- Thrill, Torment
- Unhappiness
- Vulnerability
- Worry
- Yearning
- Zest
Primal Emotions
Some people narrow down emotions into tight categories for simplicity:
| 5 Primal Emotions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love | Happiness | Anger | Sadness | Fear |
| Feeling Mad | Feeling Remorse | Feeling Embarrassed | ||
| Feeling Shame | ||||
| Primal Emotions build up to complex mental conditions that you don't feel but rather are | ||||
| ACT LOVE | ACT HAPPY | ACT ANGRY | ACT SAD | ACT FEARFUL |
| Are respectful | Are excited | Are jealous | Are disappointed | Are nervous |
| Are satisfied | Are irritated | Are pitiful | Are remorseful | |
| Are proud | Are hateful | Are bored | Are confused | |
| Are calm | Are disgusted | Are depressed | Are hopeful | |
| Are confident | Are frustrated | Are courageous | ||
| Are careful | ||||
According to Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric
The emotions are:
- Anger vs. Calmness
- Love vs. Enmity
- Fear vs. Confidence
- Shame vs. Shamelessness
- Kindness vs. Unkindness
- Pity
- Indignation
- Envy
Stoic Passions
The Stoics named four primary passions. In On Passions, Andronicus reported the Stoic definitions of these passions (trans. Long & Sedley, pg. 411, modified):
- Distress
- Distress is an irrational contraction, or a fresh opinion that something bad is present, at which people think it right to be depressed.
- Fear
- Fear is an irrational aversion, or avoidance of an expected danger.
- Lust
- Lust is an irrational desire, or pursuit of an expected good.
- Delight
- Delight is an irrational swelling, or a fresh opinion that something good is present, at which people think it right to be elated.
Numerous subdivisions of the same class are brought under the head of the separate passions. The definitions are those of the translation of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by J. E. King.
Distress
- Envy
- Envy is distress incurred by reason of a neighbor's prosperity.
- Rivalry
- Rivalry is distress, should another be in possession of the object desired and one has to go without it oneself.
- Jealousy
- Jealousy is distress arising from the fact that the thing one has coveted oneself is in the possession of the other man as well as one's own.
- Compassion
- Compassion is distress arising from the wretchedness of a neighbor in undeserved suffering.
- Anxiety
- Anxiety is oppressive distress.
- Mourning
- Mourning is distress arising from the untimely death of a beloved object.
- Sadness
- Sadness is tearful distress.
- Troubling
- Troubling is burdensome distress.
- Grief
- Grief is torturing distress.
- Lamenting
- Distress accompanied by wailing.
- Depression
- Depression is distress accompanied by brooding.
- Vexation
- Vexation is lasting distress.
- Despondency
- Despondency is distress without any prospect of amelioration.
Fear
- Sluggishness
- Sluggishness is fear of ensuing toil.
- Shame
- Shame is fear causing diffusion of blood.
- Fright
- Fright is paralyzing fear which causes paleness, trembling and chattering of teeth.
- Timidity
- Timidity is fear of approaching evil.
- Consternation
- Consternation is fear upsetting the mental balance.
- Pusillanimity
- Pusillanimity is fear following on the heels of fright like an attendant.
- Bewilderment
- Bewilderment is fear paralyzing thought.
- Faintheartedness
- Faintheartedness is lasting fear.
Lust
- Anger
- Anger is lust of punishing the man who is thought to have inflicted an undeserved injury.
- Rage
- Rage is anger springing up and suddenly showing itself.
- Hatred
- Hatred is inveterate anger.
- Enmity
- Enmity is anger watching as opportunity for revenge.
- Wrath
- Wrath is anger of greater bitterness conceived in the innermost heart and soul.
- Greed
- Greed is insatiable lust.
- Longing
- Longing is lust of beholding someone who is not present.
Delight
- Malice
- Malice is pleasure derived from a neighbor's evil which brings no advantage to oneself.
- Rapture
- Rapture is pleasure soothing the soul by charm of the sense of hearing.
- Ostentation
- Ostentation is pleasure shown in outward demeanor and puffing oneself out extravagantly.
Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions
Robert Plutchik created a wheel of emotions in 1980 which consisted of 8 basic emotions and 8 advanced emotions each composed of 2 basic ones.
| Basic Emotion | Basic Opposite |
|---|---|
| Joy | Sadness |
| Acceptance | Disgust |
| Fear | Anger |
| Surprise | Anticipation |
| Sadness | Joy |
| Disgust | Acceptance |
| Anger | Fear |
| Anticipation | Surprise |
| Advanced Emotion | Composed of... | Advanced Opposite |
|---|---|---|
| Optimism | Anticipation + Joy | Disappointment |
| Love | Joy + Acceptance | Remorse |
| Submission | Acceptance + Fear | Contempt |
| Awe | Fear + Surprise | Aggressiveness |
| Disappointment | Surprise + Sadness | Optimism |
| Remorse | Sadness + Disgust | Love |
| Contempt | Disgust + Anger | Submission |
| Aggressiveness | Anger + Anticipation | Awe |
Emotions According to Different Psychologists
A table which includes the number of different basic emotions that the psychologist indicated existed in parentheses. According to this, there are 5 basic human emotions agreed on by all psychologists: Fear, Anger, Disgust, Surprise, and Joy. There are 12 possible emotions in existence.
| The Basic Human Emotions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll Izard (10) | Paul Ekman & Wallace Frisen (7) | Robert Plutchik (8) | Silvan Tomkins (9) |
| Fear | Fear | Fear | Fear |
| Anger | Anger | Anger | Anger |
| Disgust | Disgust | Disgust | Disgust |
| Surprise | Surprise | Surprise | Surprise |
| Joy | Happiness | Joyous | Enjoyment |
| Shame | Shame | ||
| Contempt | Contempt | Contempt | |
| Sadness | Sadness | Sadness | |
| Interest | Anticipation | Interest | |
| Guilt | |||
| Acceptance | |||
| Distress | |||
The artificial language Logjam
It has interjections expressing degrees of these emotions:
- Simple emotions
- Complex emotions
- Pure emotions
- fear - nervousness - security
- togetherness - privacy
- respect - disrespect
- appreciation - envy
- love - indifference - hatred
- familiarity - mystery
- Propositional attitudes
- attentive - inattentive - avoiding
- alertness - exhaustion
- intent - indecision - refusal
- effort - no real effort - repose
- hope - despair
- desire - indifference - reluctance
- interest - no interest - repulsion
- Complex propositional attitudes
- permission - prohibition
- competence - incompetence
- obligation - freedom
- constraint - independence - resistance to constraint
- request - negative request
- suggestion - no suggestion - warning
- understand - confused
See also
External links
- http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/recognizing.htm That page presents lists from Ekman, Lazarus, Ortony et al., and Goleman.
- http://www.personalityresearch.org/basicemotions.html A table of basic emotions according to a variety of authors.
- http://www.taiwas.net/emotions Chart of 121 emotions (with 3D characteristic).
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