Abstract
Human emotions are complex in their nature and relationships to each other. Some authors, like Shaver et al. (2001) recognized different categories of human emotions which are not linked together, i.e. they don’t show how emotions in each category relate to other categories. As it would be a long and complex process to try and relate all the human emotions in a unified hierarchy, this paper deals with a restricted category of emotions known as the “basic emotions”. It will discuss how those emotions can be related to each other, which ones come first and which follow, and which are more “basic” than others. This can be extended to a wider range of emotions based on the tree model suggested.
Highlights
Human emotions are complex in their nature and relationships to each other
The problem is more clouded by the fact that emotions differ with culture (Kagan, 1984; Myers, 2010, pp511-514) with the exception of certain emotions like fear, sadness, anger and happiness (Shaver et al, 2001).This makes it even harder to settle on a list of human emotions that is cross-cultural and agreed-upon
Less developed people would see it as a threat to their lives, could think of large snakes as potential food, could worship it because of its beauty and might, but would not experience fear from snakes in the sense of fear that is seen in the “more developed” societies. Those same people will regard high places a good shelter from predators and may prefer sleeping on a tree branch, not feeling “fear” of falling down, unlike the more “developed societies” where acrophobia is seen. This level of human emotion is called protection, because two basic emotions of that level, pain and anger, are a direct extension to level I emotions, the ones that are directly related to survival
Summary
Key: (A) Arnold, (E) Ekman, Friesen & Ellsworth, (F) Frijda, (G) Gray, (I) Izard, (Jc) Jack, Garrod & Schyns, (Jm) James, (Mc) McDougall, (Mo) Mowrer, (O) Oatley & Johnson-Laird,. By extension, means that the feeling of pain, that originally resulted from the feeling of hunger, will not be controlled This human-being needs to develop a new emotion in order to reflect the new state of feeling he is in. Those same people will regard high places a good shelter from predators and may prefer sleeping on a tree branch, not feeling “fear” of falling down, unlike the more “developed societies” where acrophobia is seen This level of human emotion is called protection, because two basic emotions of that level, pain and anger, are a direct extension to level I emotions, the ones that are directly related to survival. That doesn’t mean the two emotions are mutually exclusive, as an individual might experience one or the other, or both of the two at the same time
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