Robert Plutchik, a professor and psychologist created Wheel of Emotions, depicting different emotions with varying intensity. His model to decode emotions is one of the most influential among all theories. This model describes how emotions are related.
There are eight basic emotions – Joy, Trust, Fear, Surprise, Sadness, Disgust, Anger and Anticipation.
These eight are basic emotions and opposites – joy versus sadness; anger versus fear; trust versus disgust; and surprise versus anticipation.
The eight primary emotions can be expressed at different intensities – intense joy is ecstasy and mild anger could be annoyance. Primary emotions when mixed, form different emotions – joy and trust is love and the opposite is remorse.
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Interesting!
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Yes, it is! Thank you!
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I never sat down and thought of it!
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Interesting! 🙂 I liked the wheel, and the development of the emotions!
Though I wish he hadn’t put fear in my favorite color Green 😛 😀
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Ha ha! Colors are not related to emotions in this chart, so you can relax! 😀
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That’s an interesting way of identifying emotions and their intensity…
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Yes, a great visual representation. Though I read the critics calling out Pride is not anywhere on this chart.
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It will take me some time to understand this chart perfectly. But it makes a little sense to me now! 😀
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It will make more sense as you see the emotions, what’s on the diagonal opposite and then mix to emotions side by side to see what’s written in between.
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looks complex on the outet but so simple… and so true. Interesting!
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Yes, it looks complex but isn’t. I read it, understood and then thought of sharing 🙂
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As an emotional person – perfect post for me:-) Thanks for sharing dear Parul
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Thanks Eli. I am very emotional and expressive too. Hence, the post 🙂
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This post was interestingly educational for me 🙂
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Super! Glad you liked it 🙂
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Interesting post, Parul! 🙂
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Thanks Vinitha!
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very very interesting! totally makes sense!
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Thanks Titli. Yes – I also found this very interesting and easy to understand. 🙂
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Well I didn’t know about any such thing..! Glad you shared.. and it’s interesting as well..
Cheers
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Even I learnt along.. It was fun to know this. Thank you!
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Interesting and enlightening. I have taken a print of it to understand it better. Thanks for sharing it.
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My pleasure! 🙂 Taking a print out is cool 😀
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Quite interesting emotional wheel.Did not know anything like this existed.Thanks for sharing.:)
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Glad you enjoyed the post!
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Very interesting! Although I have studied psychology, I have never seen emotions presented in this way.
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This was new to me too. But it made sense immediately. A very logical way to represent.
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That’s quite interesting. Loved the part about how each emotion and it’s varying degrees with the colour coding have been reflected.
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Yep! It’s fascinating and logical as well 🙂
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Oh interesting, I was never aware of this one until now.
Now let me save the picture and keep going back to it 🙂
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Yeah – it’s a good one to analyze and keep coming back. Thank you!
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