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For example, classical theories of emotion assume that a psychological phenomenon is caused by a dedicated mechanism of the same name (e.g., in basic emotion theories, the experience of fear is caused by a “fear” mechanism; in theories of appraisals-as-mechanisms, the experience of novelty is caused by a “novelty” mechanism).
Discrete emotion theory is the claim that there is a small number of core emotions. For example, Silvan Tomkins (1962, 1963) concluded that there are nine basic affects which correspond with what we come to know as emotions: interest , enjoyment , surprise , distress , fear , anger , shame , dissmell (reaction to bad smell) and disgust .
In subject area: Computer Science. Discrete Emotion refers to the concept of fundamental emotions, such as happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, disgust, and fear, that are universally shared among cultures and quantified using ordinal values for emotional expression levels. AI generated definition based on: Information Fusion, 2024.
An experience of an affective state as a discrete and bounded event that, in English, can be labeled with emotion words such as “anger,” “disgust,” “fear,” etc. Discrete emotions may stand in contrast to more general experiences of affect as feelings of pleasure or displeasure and high v. low activation (e.g. some discrete instances of fear, anger, and disgust may share similar ...
The discrete theory of emotion The most well-known of these theories is the discrete theory of emotion. This theory suggests that emotions are separate, discrete things that we developed from having to deal with fundamental life tasks like running away from a predator (Ekman, 1999).
According to basic emotion theory, humans and animals experience discrete categories of each emotion because each emotion is an adaptation that developed to solve an adaptive problem. For instance, over time via evolution, the discrete emotion of fear developed as a mechanism to avoid danger and enhance the survival of our genes.
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Aug 1, 2023 · Constructivist theories of emotion posit that fear and other discrete emotions come to be when people predictively make meaning of physiological signals from their bodies related to allostasis (i.e., the biological processes that anticipate future needs and proactively regulate homeostasis) using culturally derived notions of what specific emotions are (i.e., emotion concepts) (Barrett, 2017b ...
