While trait positive emotionality and state positive-valence affect have long been the subject
of intense study, the importance of differentiating among several “discrete” positive emotions …

What is compassion? And how did it evolve? In this review, we integrate 3 evolutionary
arguments that converge on the hypothesis that compassion evolved as a distinct affective …

Emotion is conceptualised as an emergent, dynamic process based on an individual's
subjective appraisal of significant events. It is argued that theoretical models of emotion …

Are Americans more individualistic and less collectivistic than members of other groups?
The authors summarize plausible psychological implications of individualism-collectivism …

Morality dignifies and elevates. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God said"
Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil"(Gen. 3: 22). In many of the …

The Laws of Emotion is an accessible work that reviews much of the insightful new research
on emotions conducted over the last ten years. It expands on the theory of emotions …

The scientific study of emotion has long been dominated by theories emphasizing the
subjective experience of emotions and their accompanying expressive and physiological …

A meta-analysis examined emotion recognition within and across cultures. Emotions were
universally recognized at better-than-chance levels. Accuracy was higher when emotions …

Usually, people's emotions arise from their perceptions of their circumstances-immediate,
imagined, or remembered. This idea has been implicit in many philosophical treatments of …

Abstract For North Americans, elicitors of disgust come from nine domains: food, body
products, animals, sexual behaviors, contact with death or corpses, violations of the exterior …