List of emotions

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This is a list of emotions.

Contents [hide] 1 Alphabetical list of emotions 2 Primal Emotions 3 According to Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric 4 Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions 5 Emotions According to Different Psychologists 6 The artificial language Lojban 7 See also 8 External links

 

[edit] Alphabetical list of emotions

See Also: wiktionary:Category:Emotions

• Acceptance, Agitation, Alarm, Amusement, Anger, Angst, Annoyance, Anticipation, Apprehension, Apathy, Awe
• Bitterness, Boredom
• Calmness, Cautiousness, Comfort, Contentment, Confidence, Courage
• Depression, 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, Patience, Peace, Phobia, Pity, Pride
• Rage, Regret, Remorse, Resentment
• Sadness, Schadenfreude, Self-pity, Shame, Shyness, Sorrow, Shock,^{[disambiguation needed]} Suffering, Surprise, Suspense
• Unhappiness
• Vulnerability
• Worry
• Yearning
• Zest

 

[edit] 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

 

[edit] 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

 

[edit] 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

 

[edit] 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

 

[edit] The artificial language Lojban

It has interjections expressing degrees of these emotions:

• Simple emotions
  • discovery - confusion
  • gain - loss
  • generosity - greed
  • surprise - no surprise - expectation
  • wonder - commonplace
  • happiness - unhappiness
  • amusement - weariness
  • completion - incompleteness
  • courage - timidity - cowardice
  • pity - cruelty
  • repentance - lack of regret - innocence
• Complex emotions
  • pride - modesty - shame
  • closeness - detachment - distance
  • complaint/pain - doing OK - pleasure
  • caution - boldness - rashness - drama
  • patience - mere tolerance - anger
  • relaxation - composure - stress
• 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
  • confused

 

[edit] See also

• affect
• emotion
• Definition of the emotions
• emotion and memory
• empathy
• facial expression
• mood

 

[edit] External links

• http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/recognizing.htm That page presents lists from Ekman, Lazarus, Ortony et al., and Goleman.

 

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Emotions
Acceptance Affection Aggression Ambivalence Anger Apathy Anxiety Compassion Confusion Despair Disgust Doubt Ecstasy Empathy Envy Embarrassment Euphoria Fear Forgiveness Frustration Guilt Gratitude Grief Happiness Hatred Hope Horror Hostility Homesickness Hysteria Loneliness Love Pity Pleasure Rage Regret Remorse Sadness Shame Suffering Surprise Sympathy   v • d • e