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Historical
Review
Models
of the basic emotions
What is mood for?
Antonio
R. Damasio
July-August,
2001
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The Nature
of Emotions
Human
emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their
complexity and provide tools for clinical practice
Robert Plutchik
Keywords:
emotions, evolutionary
psychology, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, circumplex model
Abstract:
What is
an emotion? More than 90 definitions have been offered over the past
century, and there are almost as many theories of emotion—not to mention
a complex array of overlapping words in our languages to describe
them. Plutchik offers an integrative theory based on evolutionary
principles. Emotions are adaptive—in fact, they have a complexity
born of a long evolutionary history--and although we conceive of emotions
as feeling states, Plutchik says the feeling state is part of a process
involving both cognition and behavior and containing several feedback
loops.
Robert
Plutchik is professor emeritus
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and adjunct professor at
the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia
University. He has authored or coauthored more than 260 articles,
45 chapters and eight books and has edited seven books. His research
interests include the study of emotions, the study of suicide and
violence and the study of the psychotherapy process. Address for Plutchik:
4505 Deer Creek Boulevard, Sarasota, FL 34238. Internet: proban@home.com
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