09 - Alan Fiske: The Problems with Labeling Emotions, And the Case for a New Emotion
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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What Is an Emotion?
Most emotion researchers believe that there are six or 16 basic emotions, all of which correspond precisely to english words. In any given language, you don't have definite words for all emotions. You may have words that emphasize one emotion in one context and not in another. So we found that in the various dialects of arabic, and standard arabian, camamuta, the emotion that we are studying, people don't have name for it. They can just say, i was happy or iwas joyous, but they don't have a specific name for it,. Except in the context of sufi worship, where they have a number of nuance terms and terrib music that
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