Episode 135: The Science of Emotion
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Different Types of Emotions
There are two main approaches to this, both theories and dimensional theories. Discrete theories of emotion postulate that all humans have an innate set of basic emotions that are cross culturally recognizable. They're called discrete because there's a fixed number of them and they're separated from each other. And it's thought that these exist cross culturally. So anger, disgust, fear and sadness are all negatively valenced. Only one of them happiness is positively valenced. The other thing to note is that surprise is not really valenced either way. It's not distinctively valenced or surprises can just be neutral as well. I would put surprise alongside those things and not really call it an emotion, but
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