Human beings have seven basic emotions: joy, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, and surprise. An emotion is a basic emotion if it has been scientifically demonstrated to be expressed and recognized the same by all cultures. In effect, a basic emotion has been shown to be associated with a specific set of facial expressions[ref]http://www.humintell.com/2010/06/the-seven-basic-emotions-do-you-know-them[/ref]. This sounds simple in practice, but there are a lot of misconceptions that … [Read more...]