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Semantic Space Theory: Data-Driven Insights Into Basic Emotions

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Dacher Keltner *
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Jeffrey A. Brooks
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Alan Cowen
DOI:10.1177/09637214221150511delete
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Here we present semantic space theory and the data-driven methods it entails. Across the largest studies to date of emotion-related experience, expression, and physiology, we find that emotion is high dimensional, defined by blends of upward of 20 distinct kinds of emotions, and not reducible to low-dimensional structures and conceptual processes as assumed by constructivist accounts. Specific emotions are not separated by sharp boundaries, contrary to basic emotion theory, and include states that often blend. Emotion concepts such as anger are primary in the unfolding of emotional experience and emotion recognition, more so than core affect processes of valence and arousal. We conclude by outlining studies showing how these data-driven discoveries are a basis of machine-learning models that are serving larger-scale, more diverse studies of naturalistic emotional behavior.
Keywords:
emotion
expression
semantic space
expression models

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Current Directions in Psychological Science cover
Current Directions in Psychological Science
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University of California System
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