Despite decades of challenges to the idea that a small number of emotions enjoys the
special status of “basic emotions,” the idea continues to have considerable influence in …

“What is an emotion?” That question was asked in precisely that form by William James, as
the title of an essay he wrote for Mind well over 100 years ago (James, 1884). But …

Publisher Summary The emotions play a central role in most theories of personality. Yet,
personality psychologists have shown a remarkable tolerance for ambiguity with regard to …

The Structure of Emotions argues that emotion concepts should have a much more
important role in the social and behavioural sciences than they now enjoy, and shows that …

This chapter provides an overview of theories currently discussed in the psychology of
emotion and the controversies and research issues they generate. As should become …

We argue that there are three coherent, nontrivial notions of basic-ness: conceptual basic-
ness, biological basic-ness, and psychological basic-ness. There is considerable evidence …

The emotions are at the centre of our lives and, for better or worse, imbue them with much of
their significance. The philosophical problems stirred up by the existence of the emotions …

This paper uses a theory of the emotions to motivate a semantic analysis of English words
referring to emotions. The theory assumes that emotions have a two-fold communicative …

We have attempted four main tasks in this chapter. First, a systematic overview is given of
the cognitive–phenomenological theory of emotions put forth by Lazarus and his colleagues …

A widespread assumption in theories of emotion is that there exists a small set of basic
emotions. From a biological perspective, this idea is manifested in the belief that there might …