A report on Emotion and Emotion classification

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Colored intaglio prints by Charles Le Brun and J. Pass depicting the facial expressions of sixteen emotions
Examples of basic emotions
The emotion wheel.
Two dimensions of emotions. Made accessible for practical use.
Two dimensions of emotion
Illustration from Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)
Simplified graph of James-Lange Theory of Emotion
Timeline of some of the most prominent brain models of emotion in affective neuroscience.

Emotion classification, the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another, is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective science.

- Emotion classification

Emotions have been categorized, with some relationships existing between emotions and some direct opposites existing.

- Emotion
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3 related topics with Alpha

Overall

Structures of the brainstem, the origin of the arousal system, viewed along the sagittal plane

Arousal

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Physiological and psychological state of being awoken or of sense organs stimulated to a point of perception.

Physiological and psychological state of being awoken or of sense organs stimulated to a point of perception.

Structures of the brainstem, the origin of the arousal system, viewed along the sagittal plane

It holds significance within emotion and has been included in theories such as the James-Lange theory of emotion.

Arousal is also an essential element in many influential theories of emotion, such as the James-Lange theory of emotion or the Circumplex Model.

Affective science

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Affective science is the scientific study of emotion or affect.

Examples of this include the dimensional models of Russell and others, Plutchik's wheel of emotions, and the general distinction between basic and complex emotions.

PAD emotional state model

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Psychological model developed by Albert Mehrabian and James A. Russell to describe and measure emotional states.

Psychological model developed by Albert Mehrabian and James A. Russell to describe and measure emotional states.

PAD uses three numerical dimensions, Pleasure, Arousal and Dominance to represent all emotions.

The PA part of PAD was developed into a circumplex model of emotion experience, and those two dimensions were termed "core affect".