Tag: basic emotions

It’s a delightful, uncontrollable response. It’s like an orgasm of the mind that bursts through the body.

Surprise is one of the six basic emotions proposed by psychologist Paul Ekman in the mid-20th century. Ekman claimed that these emotions were biologically universal to all human beings, and were, like chemical… more emotion Surprise

In the middle of the last century, psychologist Paul Ekman declared, on the basis of a thin body of poorly-designed research, that all of human emotional experience can be reduced to just six… more emotion Revolted

In the mid-20th century, a school of psychologists attempted to establish a system for objectively identifying basic universal emotions, agreed upon by all people regardless of of cultural differences and individual experiences. Their… more emotion Contempt

The engineers of artificial intelligence systems that are supposed to detect emotion would have us believe that our feelings are simple and discrete, capable of easy measurement and analysis. A consideration of even… more emotion Woda

If you have stood on the top of a skyscraper or climbed a high mountain to emerge at the edge of a steep cliff, the chances are good that you have experienced the… more emotion L’Appel du Vide