basic emotion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandemotion
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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emotion
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/us/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən/
a strong feeling such as love or anger, or strong feelings ...
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(Definition ofbasicandemotionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Affective researchers have also proposed that eachbasicemotionis associated with a characteristic facial expression.
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However,basicemotionwords such as "happy" and "angry" to a great extent are used to describe and not to express emotions.
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In contrast to pain, eachbasicemotionserves as a general-purpose motivational system, with a virtually limitless variety of activators and associated behavioral responses.
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For example, the specificity of causes for, and behavioral responses to, pain is much greater than that for anybasicemotion.
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Basicemotiontheorists have primarily explored the behavioral and expressive manifestations of emotion.
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A pattern of pain andbasicemotionexpressions in response to injury provide an adaptive advantage over a pain expression alone.
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I interpretbasicemotionexpressions that occur contemporaneously with pain expression as representing separate but highly interactive systems, each with distinct adaptive functions.
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Moreover,basicemotiontheory is largely incompatible with recent findings in behavioral genetics and temperament research.
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Such a conceptual framework suggests that we consider the possibility of distinctly different adaptive functions for both pain andbasicemotionexpressions in response to painful stimulation.
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Disgust was selected because it is almost universally considered to be abasicemotionin the applicable literature.
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Eachbasicemotionis associated with a distinctive facial expression.
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These are often calledbasicemotionperspectives because they view emotion as biologically basic.
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The propensity to act is suppressed, while yourbasicemotionabout it remains in a subdued form.
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Black and white photographs of 10 actors (6 male, 4 female) are presented, with each actor displaying eachbasicemotion.
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Eachbasicemotioncategory also shares other universal characteristics: distinct facial behavior, physiology, subjective experience and accompanying thoughts and memories.
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The research has supported that there are independent neural systems in the brain, each handling a specificbasicemotion.
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Beginning as early as age three or four months, infants discriminate between the facial and vocal expressions of several basic emotions.
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Neural structures associated with recognition of facial expressions of basic emotions.
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