The concept of 'basic’ or ‘primary’ emotions dates back at least to the Book of Rites, a first-century Chinese encyclopaedia that picks out seven ‘feelings of men’: joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, ...

Ekman worked with a closed group of members from the Fori tribe in Papua New Guinea. What's fascinating is that love isn't included in this list of primary emotions. All mammals feel many types of ...

Here's a piece of research that might leave you tickled: laughter is a universal language, according to new research. The study, conducted with people from Britain and Namibia, suggests that basic ...

According to recent literature in philosophy and psychology, there is a set of basic emotions that were preserved over the course of evolution because they serve (or served) adaptive functions.

It’s natural to want to be happy all the time. But it’s telling that most of what many consider to be our seven basic emotions–joy, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, contempt and disgust–reflect the ...

For centuries, emotions were undervalued, misunderstood, and even demonized by philosophers and theologians. They were seen as obstacles to rational thought, a view that permeated our understanding of ...

It is commonplace in philosophy and psychology to divide emotions into two groups: basic and complex emotions. Complex emotions, such as grief, regret, and jealousy, have highly variable appearances ...