Basic Emotions
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This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Characteristics That Distinguish Basic Emotions Does Any One Characteristic Distinguish the Basic Emotions? The Value of the Basic Emotions Position Acknowledgements References
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A breadth of research has shown that internal experiences and overt behavior tend to co-vary in predictable ways.
“Despite the potential for differing relations between internal experiences and overt behavior, a breadth of research has shown how internal experiences and overt behavior tend to co-vary in predictable ways (e.g., Ekman, 1999;Glasman & Albarracin, 2006;Hosking et al., 2009).”
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- Authors
- Ekman, P.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ekman, Paul
- Venue
- Handbook of Cognition and Emotion
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1999-02-25
- Pages
- 45-60
- OpenAlex
- W4251591997
- Cited by
- 2,125
- References
- 0
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- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Keywords
- basic emotions, emotion theory, emotion classification, universal emotions, evolutionary psychology of emotion
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