CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -We often get asked about emotions such as shame, pride, jealously and guilt. While these emotions are important ones, they are still not considered part of the basic emotions set. For example, there is no scientific evidence showing that there is a universal facial expression of shame.

Detailed explanation-2: -As such, Jack et al. (2014) proposed that we humans have four basic emotions: fear, anger, joy, and sad.

Detailed explanation-3: -Facial expressions that give clues to a person’s mood, including happiness, surprise, contempt, sadness, fear, disgust, and anger.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dr. Ekman identified the six basic emotions as anger, surprise, disgust, enjoyment, fear, and sadness. His research shows the strongest evidence to date of a seventh emotion, which is contempt.

Detailed explanation-5: -While basic emotions such as anger, surprise or fear tend to happen automatically, without much cognitive processing, the self-conscious emotions, including shame, guilt and pride, are more complex. They require self-reflection and self-evaluation.