Know+your+emotions

Download the document above. You are categorizing emotions and “feelings?” in the exercise above. Read through the list on the download:



 * Are there any emotions listed which have identical meanings?
 * Does our inability or ability to describe these affect the way we perceive them?
 * Are any emotions related directly to our survival?
 * Which emotions are learned and which are innate?
 * Can we classify emotions into specific groups?

I’ve tried to plot my primary emotions on the axis below. The Alchin exercise categorizes emotions the following way:
The instinctive emotions, such as anger or love The social emotions, such as guilt or shame The inward-looking emotions, such as fear, where we are “drawn into ourselves” The outward-looking emotions, such as wonder, where we are “drawn out of ourselves”

=== I found plotting my choices to be a bit difficult. I really wanted to place anger in two different categories (both outward-looking and inward-looking). Maybe this has to do with the ambiguity of the words/the language in English. Consider an alternative "Axis of Emotion." ===

Are these classifications the best?
Compare your list to these:
 * Happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust **(Van de Lagemat p. 147)**
 * Pleasure, anger, sorrow, joy, love, hate, desire **(** **T’oegye** **Korean philosopher, Alchin p. 294)**
 * Fondness, dislike, delight, anger, sadness, joy **(Hsun Tzu Chinese philosopher, Alchin p. 294)**


 * 1) ** Which emotions common to all 3 (and common to yours). **
 * 2) ** Do you agree with these 6 basic? **
 * 3) ** What should we consider to be our 6? Why? **
 * 4) ** What problems with defining emotion do the lists above imply? **

**The Primary Emotions as indicated in the Van de Lagemaat (p. 147) are said to be universally recognized, despite one's culture or background. Can you identify them (** **Happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust) in the faces below?**

**How about in the robots?**

Recognizing Emotions Dialogue


 * Homework: ** Reading: van de Lagemaat p.p. 145-149