Emotions are an important part of human intelligence. Identifying specific emotional categories from complex neural patterns, i.e., the neural decoding of emotional information, is a key issue in ...

The concept of 'basic’ or ‘primary’ emotions dates back at least to the Book of Rites, a first-century Chinese encyclopaedia that picks out seven ‘feelings of men’: joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, ...

As we move about our socio-cultural world, we share space with other humans. We sometimes must rely on non-verbal communication to understand each other, including what emotions are being felt.

In the 1970s, psychologist Paul Eckman defined six basic emotions of which he believed all other emotions were a combination. He theorized that these six emotions — happiness, sadness, fear, anger, ...

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