Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients.

ABSTRACT: Emotions are centered in subjective experiences that people represent, in part, with hundreds, if not thousands, of semantic terms. Claims about the distribution of reported emotional states and the boundaries between emotion categories-that is, the geometric organization of the semantic space of emotion-have sparked intense debate. Here we introduce a conceptual framework to analyze reported emotional states elicited by 2,185 short videos, examining the richest array of reported emotional experiences studied to date and the extent to which reported experiences of emotion are structured by discrete and dimensional geometries. Across self-report methods, we find that the videos reliably elicit 27 distinct varieties of reported emotional experience. Further analyses revealed that categorical

SUBMITTER: Cowen AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5617253 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature