Mapping the Passions: Toward a High-Dimensional Taxonomy of Emotional Experience and Expression
[FULL TEXT READ at PMC. Alan Cowen first and corresponding, University of California, Berkeley; Disa Sauter, University of Amsterdam; Jessica L. Tracy, University of British Columbia; Dacher Keltner last] Cowen, A., Sauter, D., Tracy, J. L., & Keltner, D. (2019). 'Mapping the Passions: Toward a High-Dimensional Taxonomy of Emotional Experience and Expression.' Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 20(1), 69-90. doi:10.1177/1529100619850176. THE DIRECT, SAME-ISSUE, PEER-REVIEWED ANSWER TO THE CARRYING SOURCE, AND THE ARTICLE IS OBLIGED TO USE IT. The argument in one line: a test of a basic-six model is not a test of what the face can tell you, because the basic six capture at most about 30 per cent of the systematic variance. THE NUMBERS: 'each of those models captures at most 30% of the variance in the emotional experiences people reliably report and in the distinct expressions people reliably recognize. That leaves 70% or more of the variability in our emotional experience and expression uncharted', and precisely, from their Figure 6 legend, 28.0 per cent and 28.5 per cent for facial expressions and 30.2 per cent and 29.1 per cent for emotional experiences, for the basic six and for valence and arousal respectively. Their emotion-concept map used 757 participants, 348 female, mean age 34.2, producing 43,756 judgements over 600 English emotion words and deriving 49 candidate dimensions. Their dimensionality tally: at least 24 emotions reliably communicated by vocal bursts from 2,032 vocal bursts, 28 through visual cues from face and body from 1,500 expressions, 27 varieties of experience from 2,185 videos, at least 12 from speech prosody 'reliably identified in distinct cultures', and more than 13 from brief sounds 'replicated across 14 cultures, including two remote, small-scale societies'. On touch: 'With brief, half second touches to a stranger's arm,
[FULL TEXT READ at PMC. Alan Cowen first and corresponding, University of California, Berkeley; Disa Sauter, University of Amsterdam; Jessica L. Tracy, University of British Columbia; Dacher Keltner last] Cowen, A., Sauter, D., Tracy, J. L., & Keltner, D. (2019). 'Mapping the Passions: Toward a High-Dimensional Taxonomy of Emotional Experience and Expression.' Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 20(1), 69-90. doi:10.1177/1529100619850176. THE DIRECT, SAME-ISSUE, PEER-REVIEWED ANSWER TO THE CARRYING SOURCE, AND THE ARTICLE IS OBLIGED TO USE IT. The argument in one line: a test of a basic-six model is not a test of what the face can tell you, because the basic six capture at most about 30 per cent of the systematic variance. THE NUMBERS: 'each of those models captures at most 30% of the variance in the emotional experiences people reliably report and in the distinct expressions people reliably recognize. That leaves 70% or more of the variability in our emotional experience and expression uncharted', and precisely, from their Figure 6 legend, 28.0 per cent and 28.5 per cent for facial expressions and 30.2 per cent and 29.1 per cent for emotional experiences, for the basic six and for valence and arousal respectively. Their emotion-concept map used 757 participants, 348 female, mean age 34.2, producing 43,756 judgements over 600 English emotion words and deriving 49 candidate dimensions. Their dimensionality tally: at least 24 emotions reliably communicated by vocal bursts from 2,032 vocal bursts, 28 through visual cues from face and body from 1,500 expressions, 27 varieties of experience from 2,185 videos, at least 12 from speech prosody 'reliably identified in distinct cultures', and more than 13 from brief sounds 'replicated across 14 cultures, including two remote, small-scale societies'. On touch: 'With brief, half second touches to a stranger's arm,
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Cowen, A., Sauter, D., Tracy, J. L., & Keltner, D. (2019). Mapping the Passions: Toward a High-Dimensional Taxonomy of Emotional Experience and Expression. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 20(1), 69-90. doi:10.1177/1529100619850176