Re.: Origin of Plutchik's ideas:
I am sure that Plutchik did not borrow the seven emotions
mentioned in Shogun which you quoted. The eight emotions came
from research studies he and others conducted on emotion words.
The factor analysis resulted in eight categories which were
related to each other in the way suggested by the "circumplex
model." Emotions opposite to each other were
ach other on the circle were similar
in meaning. Emotions at right angles to each other were
independent. He describes his work in a book and there are
several recent articles. I can give you the references if you
want to look them up.
Re.: Remembering versus re-living an emotional experience
As a result of playing with Mahrer's therapy technique with some
of my own patients, I have seen people go from a rather
colorless, unemotional verbal description of an incident as if
they were describing the way an objective observer might have
experienced it to something quite different. When a person
relives an experience, the description is given in the first
person. The tense of the action words change from the past to
the present. The person moves more and becomes more animated.
It is interesting to watch the change. People in "hypnotic
trances" show similar kinds of changes.
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To: Bruce Nevin & other CSG-Lers
From: David Goldstein
Subject: emotion4 & hpct
Date: 09/29/93