Psychology Category
Research on discrete, universal emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust and their cross-cultural expression.
Welcome to the Basic Emotions category of this site. Here you will find clear, detailed articles covering key topics related to Basic Emotions.
A detailed guide to amygdala lesions and impaired emotion recognition. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to anger and the approach motivation system. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to appraisal theory of emotional elicitation. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to artificial intelligence recognition of basic emotions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to basic emotion activation in the amygdala. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to basic emotions in infancy and development. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to comparative studies of emotional displays in primates. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to contempt as a distinct social emotion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to cross cultural recognition of emotional expressions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to crying and the communication of sadness. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to cultural display rules and emotional behavior. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to darwin and the evolutionary origins of emotion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to discrete emotion theory versus dimensional accounts. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to disgust and the avoidance of contamination. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to ekman and the theory of universal emotions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to embarrassment and the social self. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to emotional blunting and anhedonia in depression. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to emotional contagion and the sharing of feelings. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to emotional expression in the human voice. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to emotional granularity and well being. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to emotional inertia and mood dynamics. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to emotional intelligence training and basic emotions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to emotional reactivity and temperament in childhood. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to emotional recognition accuracy across the lifespan. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to emotional surprise and memory formation. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to facial expression coding across basic emotions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to facial palsy and the experience of emotion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to fear and the detection of threat. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to feeling states and interoceptive awareness. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to happiness and the duchenne smile. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to microexpressions and fleeting emotional displays. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to sadness and the expression of loss. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to sleep deprivation and emotional face perception. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to surprise and the orienting response. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to sympathy versus empathy in emotional life. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the adaptive functions of disgust sensitivity. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the adaptive value of negative emotions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the autonomic signatures of basic emotions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the constructionist view of basic emotions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the experience of mixed and blended emotions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the facial feedback hypothesis of emotion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the functional role of pride and shame. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the lexical organization of emotional concepts. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the mirror neuron debate and emotion understanding. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the physiology of goosebumps and awe. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the reverse inference problem in affective neuroscience. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the social functions of anger expression. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the startle reflex and fear expression. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the universality of emotional facial expressions. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to therapeutic applications of emotion labeling. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
