What is Meant by Calling Emotions Basic

By Paul Ekman, Daniel T. Cordaro. 2011

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Psychological Construction: The Darwinian Approach to the Science of Emotion (2013, background): “…for each category are considered to be its platonic form, issuing from the stimulus directly (as in the basic emotion approach; e.g., Ekman, 1972) or after the stimulus is evaluated (as in causal appraisal models; e.g., Ekman & Cordaro, 2011; Frijda, 1986; Lazarus, 1991; Roseman, 1991).”
Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients (2017, neutral): “, subjective, behavioral, and physiological) that are similar across all instances of a given category but different, in discrete fashion, from the patterned responses of other emotions (22, 38, 39).”
Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2016, background): “Fear, anger, and disgust, for example, evolved to solve survival problems and are widely regarded as “basic” (Ekman, 1992, 1999; Ekman & Cordaro, 2011; Lazarus, 1991; Plutchik, 1980).”
Emotional contagion in organizational life (2018, background): “After finding a person’s face and creating a threedimensional image representation of it, Face-Reader classifies people’s emotions into discrete categories of basic emotions (Ekman & Cordaro, 2011).”
What’s in a Word? Language Constructs Emotion Perception (2013, methodology): “The commonsense view that emotion perception is automatically given by information on the face is formalized in the psychologi cal literature as the basic emotion approach (for recent reviews, see Ekman & Cordaro, 2011; Izard, 2011; Shariff & Tracy, 2011).”
How to Do Things with Emotional Expressions: The Theory of Affective Pragmatics (2017, background): “…evolution, rather than God, had been the granting authority. shows that the same emotions produce the same expressions in all cultures, bolstering the case for the evolutionary origin of anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness and surprise (Ekman & Cordaro, 2011; see also Matsumoto & Hwang, 2016).”
Automated facial coding: validation of basic emotions and FACS AUs in FaceReader (2014, methodology): “FaceReader classifies people’s emotions into discrete categories of basic emotions (Ekman, Sorenson, & Friesen, 1969; Ekman & Cordano, 2011).”