AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -During the 1970s, psychologist Paul Eckman identified six basic emotions that he suggested were universally experienced in all human cultures. The emotions he identified were happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise, and anger.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ekman proposed seven basic emotions: fear, anger, joy, sad, contempt, disgust, and surprise; but he changed to six basic emotions: fear, anger, joy, sadness, disgust, and surprise.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 7 Universal Facial Expressions These seven are: Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, Contempt and Surprise. Back in the late 1800’s Charles Darwin was the first person to suggest that facial expressions of emotion are the same wherever you go in the world, that they are innate.

Detailed explanation-4: -In particular, the study demonstrated that happy and angry expressions were the most recognized emotions, followed by expressions of disgust and neutral expressions, while facial expressions of fear and sadness were significantly less recognized compared to all the other emotions (Mancini et al., 2013).