Affiliation:
1. The Contentment Foundation
Abstract
Abstract
Beginning with the seminal works of Charles Darwin, Basic Emotion Theory (BET) has been one of the cornerstone theoretical frameworks in the study of emotions. Its influence has driven several fields of research in the psychological sciences and continues to provide a foundational road map to exploring the vast, still-uncharted space of human emotion. Basic emotions are discrete, evolutionarily driven processes essential to survival. They are a special subset of discrete emotions that transcend across species, time, and culture. Basic emotions are elementally distinct, genetically determined, and functionally critical. This chapter provides a brief overview of the importance of BET in emotion science, discusses which emotions are basic, and reviews where the science of basic emotions is presently. Based on these current observations, future directions for the study of evolutionarily grounded emotions are discussed.
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