Emotional aging: a discrete emotions perspective

Emotional aging: a discrete emotions perspective

Perhaps the most important single finding in the field of emotional aging has been that the overall quality of affective experience steadily improves during adulthood and can be maintained into old age. Recent lifespan developmental theories have provided motivation- and experience-based explanations for this phenomenon. These theories suggest that, as individuals grow older, they become increa...

Discrete Emotions

According to Discrete Emotion Theory, a number of emotions are distinguishable on the basis of neural, physiological, behavioural and expressive features. Critics of this view emphasize the variability and context-sensitivity of emotions. This paper discusses some of these criticisms, and argues that they do not undermine the claim that emotions are discrete. This paper also presents some works...

A new perspective on emotions.

This paper reviews the recent history of the study of human emotions in psychology and traces the factors that have been responsible for a remarkable increase of interest in emotions, especially in human development. In particular, it traces the rise of the study of emotions as regulators of human behavior. A particularly clear and powerful illustration of the regulatory role of emotional expre...

Emotions: a computational semiotics perspective

Rodrigo Gonçalves [email protected] Ricardo Gudwin [email protected] Fernando Gomide [email protected] Electrical and Computer Engineering School (FEEC), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) CP. 6101 CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brasil Abstract The discussion about the importance of emotions in the rational behavior of human being is not new. Neither is the discussion...

Do discrete emotions exist?