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 ...

Emotions are an important part of human intelligence. Identifying specific emotional categories from complex neural patterns, i.e., the neural decoding of emotional information, is a key issue in ...

Are facial expressions of emotion culturally specific, or universal? For decades, the dominant view has been that they are universal, at least when it comes to a set of "basic" emotions: fear, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Emotions are related to mood, personality and motivation, and they cause measurable ...

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 ...

The concept of "basic" or "primary" emotions dates back at least to the Book of Rites, a first-century Chinese encyclopedia that identifies seven "feelings of men": joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, ...