Emotions can be classified following a two-dimensional space along which all of them would be located. From the study of the emotion of humor and from models based on biological activation, the existence of of two different and partially independent systems that correspond to the so-called positive emotions and negative.
Gilboa and Revelle carried out an investigation to verify, among others, the hypothesis that the independence of emotions positive and negative could be demonstrated not only in the structure, but also in the temporal pattern of the responses emotional The duration of emotions associated with negative events was longer than that associated with positive events. These results are consistent with what was proposed by Frujda on the hedonic asymmetry law, which suggests that pleasure is always contingent on change and that it disappears with continuous satisfaction, while pain may persist over time, if conditions persist adverse. In this way, we would have, on the one hand, a dimension formed by the
Instead, positive emotions They are pleasant emotions, which are experienced when a goal is reached; in such a way that they are less likely to need the revision of plans and other operations cognitive, for this reason negative emotions could be expected to last longer than negative emotions. positive. Negative emotions have a clear value in survival and adaptation to the environment, while in the case of positive emotions this is not at least as evident.
A third category would be neutral emotions that they are neither pleasant nor unpleasant, that is, neither positive nor negative; but they share characteristics of both, thus they resemble the positive ones in their short time and the negative ones in the great mobilization of resources they produce.
Tomkins has distinguished nine innate emotions:
- Positive: Interest - Joy - Surprise
- Negative Anguish - Fear - Shame - Contempt - Anger - Rage
Plutchik has proposed a three-dimensional classification of emotions in which the eight basic emotional dimensions appear represented as orange segments in a cross section. The vertical dimension represents the intensity of the emotions, ranging from the maximum intensity (top) to the dream state at the bottom.
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