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Jun 24, 2024 · Basic emotions are innate and automatic, and trigger behaviour with a high survival value. They evolved in response to the ecological challenges faced by our remote ancestors.
- What Are Basic Emotions? | Psychology Today United Kingdom
Being hardwired, basic emotions (or ‘affect programs’) are...
- What Are Basic Emotions? | Psychology Today United Kingdom
Apr 27, 2020 · Being hardwired, basic emotions (or ‘affect programs’) are innate and universal, automatic, and fast, and trigger behaviour with a high survival value. So much can hardly be said of more...
- Innateness Does Not Imply Closure
- Modularity Does Not Imply Closure
- Theoretical Conservatism Does Not Support Closure
First, consider the supposed connection between innateness and invariability. Ekman makes an inference from innateness to closure in the following passage: Undoubtedly, there are many behaviors that can occur when a person encounters a basic life problem. Some will seem incongruous with the central direction of the emotional response itself. Anger,...
Now consider the inference from modularity to closure in greater detail. Izard argues that emotions are modular by pointing out non-cognitive causes of emotions: The idea is that basic emotions can operate independently of cognition because they can be triggered by low-level stimuli. This suggests that emotional states are opaque, since they respon...
Now consider one final line of support for the strong invariability assumption. Paul Griffiths suggests that dropping this and other assumptions about basic emotions would widen the reference class of basic emotions to include a motley of psychological entities. The conservative impulse here is to set apart the phenomena discovered by Ekman, Friese...
- Isaac Wiegman
- isaac.wiegman@txstate.edu
- 2021
Jan 7, 2016 · Basic emotions (or "affect programs") are innate and universal, automatic and fast, and trigger behaviour with a high survival value. Basic emotions evolved in...
Jul 13, 2017 · The core idea of a basic emotion theory – that certain emotions are innate – has also been called into question. For example, the fact that young children do not have the ability to differentiate between various emotion categories indicates that emotions may not be hardwired into the brain at birth.
Nov 2, 2023 · Basic emotions are different from other affective states and from each other in fundamental ways: They have, for example, distinctive universal signals, a distinctive physiology, and a dedicated function.
Aug 23, 2017 · Clearly, differences and idiosyncrasies in relation to the general concept of emotions are reflected in the construct of ‘basic emotions’; a view that purports the existence of a small number of so-called primary emotions, usually comprising fear, anger, joy, sadness, surprise and disgust.
