List of emotions
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This is a list of emotions (feelings).
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[edit] Robert Plutchik's theory
This says that the basic eight emotions are:
- fear -> feeling afraid. Other words are terror (strong fear), shock, phobia (fear of one thing)
- anger -> feeling angry. Another word is rage. You can be angry with yourself or with others.
- sorrow -> feeling sad. Other words are sadness, grief (a stronger feeling, for example when someone has died) or depression (feeling sad for a long time). Some people think depression is a different emotion.
- joy -> feeling happy. Other words are happiness, glee (when something good happens to you. or something bad happens to someone else), gladness.
- disgust -> feeling something is wrong or dirty.
- acceptance -> feeling happy with something.
- anticipation -> feeling happy because of something in the future.
- surprise -> how you feel when something happens quickly or when you did not think it would happen.
[edit] Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric
This theory says that the emotions are:
- Anger, opposite Calmness (not feeling excited)
- Friendship (Love), opposite Enmity (feeling hate)
- Fear, opposite Confidence (having no fear)
- Shame, opposite Shamelessness (shame: how you feel when you think you are wrong or stupid; shamelessness: you do not feel shame, but others think you should.)
- Kindness, opposite Unkindness (kindness: when you are good to other people)
- Pity (when you feel sorry for other people)
- Indignation (feeling angry because something is not fair)
- Envy (how you feel when other people are luckier than you are)
[edit] The artificial language Lojban
This "language" has words showing these emotions:
- Simple emotions
- Complex emotions
- Pure emotions
- 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