A popular example is Paul Ekman and his colleagues' cross-cultural study of 1992, in which they concluded that the six basic emotions are anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.
Theorists have conducted studies to determine which emotions are basic. These basic emotions are described as 'discrete' because they are believed to be distinguishable by an individual's facial expression and biological processes. In discrete emotion theory, all humans are thought to have an innate set of basic emotions that are cross-culturally recognizable. that emotions can be characterized on a dimensional basis in groupings.that emotions are discrete and fundamentally different constructs.Researchers have approached the classification of emotions from one of two fundamental viewpoints:
Pass depicting the facial expressions of sixteen emotionsĮmotion classification, the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another, is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective science. Colored intaglio prints by Charles Le Brun and J.
