classifications of emotions

• Primary Emotions

  -          these are considered as basic emotions because the emotions may blend in together to form other forms of emotions or reactions on different situations

  -          Robert Plutchick explained that these eight are considered as primary on evolutionary grounds, be relating each to behavior with survival value

  -          for example, fear motivates an individual to avoid danger, anger also motivates fighting in order to defend himself
• Mixed Emotions

  
  

  -          Plutchick felt that adjacent emotions can be mixed to yield a third, more complex emotion

  -    and other mixture is still possible

  -          a child who stole the cookie in the cookie jar may feel both happy and fear; guilt may result in effect
• mixture of emotions:


  -    awe, mixture of fear and surprise

  -    disappointment, mixture of surprise and sadness

  -    remorse, mixture of sadness and disgust

  -    aggression, mixture of anger and anticipation

  -    jealousy, could be a mixture of love, anger, and fear

  -    optimism, mixture of anticipation and joy

  -    contempt, mixture of disgust and anger

  -    submission, mixture of acceptance and fear

  love, mixture of joy and acceptance