Abstract
Abstract Emotions are viewed as having evolved through their adaptive value in dealing with fundamental life-tasks. Each emotion has unique features: signal, physiology, and antecedent events. Each emotion also has characteristics in common with other emotions: rapid onset, short duration, unbidden occurrence, automatic appraisal, and coherence among responses. These shared and unique characteristics are the product of our evolution, and distinguish emotions from other affective phenomena.
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Antecedent (behavioral psychology)PsychologyCognitive psychologyArgument (complex analysis)Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)Emotion classificationValue (mathematics)Cognitive appraisalCognitionSocial psychologyComputer scienceNeuroscience
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Paul Ekman
(1992).
An argument for basic emotions.
Cognition & Emotion
, 6
(3-4)
, 169-200.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699939208411068
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- 10.1080/02699939208411068