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, ...

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 ...

Emotions are related to mood, personality and motivation, and they cause measurable physiological and psychological changes. The study of emotions and feelings is important because they are at the ...

A new study by a team of Finnish researchers recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) analyzes where we feel emotions in our bodies. Through ...

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 ...