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- 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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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).
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The 12 emotions according to the discrete emotion theory include: Interest. Joy. Surprise. Sadness. Anger. Disgust. Contempt. Self-hostility. Fear. Shame. Shyness. Guilt. Other theories of emotion. Robert Plutchik’s theory. This theory claims that there are eight basic emotions: Fear.
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.
Within basic emotions, the term discrete emotion (or distinct emotion) means that this emotion represents its own category. For example, basic theorists view fear, anger, and disgust as three separate discrete emotions.
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.
The Default Mode Network (DMN) has been linked with emotion but its mechanistic role remains unclear. Most prior accounts link DMN to emotion given the role of VMPFC in more general affective processing (valence and arousal) or the broader DMN in generating internal states.
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They led to a new perspective on emotion-related gains and losses from evolution and opened the door to theoretical development and research on emerging topics such as the role of the mirror neuron system in emotion experiences, empathy, and sympathy and memes and their relations to emotion schemas.
