Criteria for basic emotions: Is DISGUST a primary “emotion”?
Title:
Criteria for basic emotions: Is DISGUST a primary “emotion”?
Author:
Panksepp, Jaak
Appeared in:
Cognition & emotion
Paging:
Volume 21 (2007) nr. 8 pages 1819-1828
Year:
2007-12
Contents:
Tornochuk and Ellis argue that DISGUST should be considered a basic emotional system, on a par with the other basic emotional systems such as SEEKING, FEAR, RAGE, LUST, CARE, PANIC and PLAY, which constitute the groundwork for a cross-species emotion neuroscience with immediate implications for understanding emotional imbalances that characterise psychiatric disorders. Disgust is clearly a basic sensory/interoceptive affect (Rozin & Fallon, 1987), and a socially constructed moral emotion (Haidt, 2003a, b), but perhaps it is a category error to classify disgust as a basic emotion. It is more akin to a sensory affect. If we consider sensory disgust to be a basic emotional systems, then why not include hunger, thirst, fatigue and many other affective states of the body as emotions?
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