Changes

*  Basic versus complex: where base emotions lead to more complex ones.  

*  Basic versus complex: where base emotions lead to more complex ones.  

*  Categorization based on duration: Some emotions occur over a period of seconds (e.g. surprise) where others can last years (e.g. love).

*  Categorization based on duration: Some emotions occur over a period of seconds (e.g. surprise) where others can last years (e.g. love).

 

A related distinction is between the emotion and the results of the emotion, principally [[behavior]]s and emotional expressions. People often behave in certain ways as a direct result of their emotional state, such as crying, fighting or fleeing. Yet again, if one can have the emotion without the corresponding behaviour then we may consider the behaviour not to be essential to the emotion. The [[James-Lange theory]]  posits that emotional experience is largely due to the experience of bodily changes. The '''functionalist''' approach to emotions (e.g.,[[Nico Frijda]])  holds that emotions have evolved for a particular function, such as to keep the subject safe.  

A related distinction is between the emotion and the results of the emotion, principally [[behavior]]s and emotional expressions. People often behave in certain ways as a direct result of their emotional state, such as crying, fighting or fleeing. Yet again, if one can have the emotion without the corresponding behaviour then we may consider the behaviour not to be essential to the emotion. The [[James-Lange theory]]  posits that emotional experience is largely due to the experience of bodily changes. The '''functionalist''' approach to emotions (e.g.,[[Nico Frijda]])  holds that emotions have evolved for a particular function, such as to keep the subject safe.