List of emotions

The contrasting and categorization of emotions describes how emotions are thought to relate to each other. Various recent proposals of such groupings are described in the following sections.

The following table, based on a wide review of current theories, identifies and contrasts the fundamental emotions according to a set of definite criteria. The three key criteria used include mental experiences that:

The combination of these attributes distinguish the emotions from sensations, feelings and moods.

The emotion annotation and representation language (EARL) proposed by the Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion (HUMAINE) classifies 48 emotions.

A tree-structured list of emotions was described in Shaver et al. (1987), and also featured in Parrott (2001).

In 1980 Robert Plutchik constructed a wheel-like diagram of emotions visualising eight basic emotions, plus eight derivative emotions each composed of two basic ones. He also theorized sixteen "Primary level" and "Secondary level" emotions, whose components were farther apart.

"Rest" can be considered an emotional zero.

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