Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients

By Alan S. Cowen, Dacher Keltner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017

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The sociality of personal and collective nostalgia (2019, neutral): “Many emotions have shades, thinner or thicker, of sociality (Cowen & Keltner, 2017; Smith & Ellsworth, 1985; Van Tilburg, Wildschut, & Sedikides, 2018).”
Customer experience in tourism: A review of definitions, components, and measurements (2020, background): “On the other hand, Csikszentmihalyi (1990) included both the hedonic nature of experience with enjoyment and its cognitive nature terms of positive recollection. Gupta and Vajic’s (2000) definition juxtaposed the hedonic and cognitive nature of experience by conceptualizing it as an outcome of a sen”
Inside-Out: From Basic Emotions Theory to the Behavioral Ecology View (2019, methodology): “By our reading, Keltner did not square the position he advanced in Keltner and Cordaro (2017) with the seemingly contradictory one he relied upon that same year in Cowen and Keltner (2017).”
GoEmotions: A Dataset of Fine-Grained Emotions (2020, methodology): “We consult psychology literature on emotion expression and recognition (Plutchik, 1980; Cowen and Keltner, 2017; Cowen et al., 2019b).”
Applying the Theory of Affective Intelligence to Support for Authoritarian Policies and Parties (2019, background): “What, apart from the authority of the scholar, or some semantic tradition, affords some standard psychometrically valid criterion (Cowen & Keltner, 2017; Marcus, Neuman, & MacKuen, 2017)?”