For example, if you have to give someone some bad news, you can think about how you, and they, might feel, and what you can do to make the conversation flow more smoothly. This ability can also help you anticipate challenging situations and decide how you will respond. Once you’ve identified this, then you can respond to them with compassion, instead of annoyance. But if you have cultivated your ability to detect emotions, you might notice that they seem sorrowful. If you aren’t skilled at sensing emotions, you might make up a story about why they aren’t congratulating you excitedly. You tell a friend your great news, and their reaction is really flat – they don’t smile or respond positively, which is unexpected. The better you become at identifying your own (and other people’s) emotions, the greater the likelihood that you’ll be able to navigate challenging situations.įor example, imagine you’re feeling ecstatic because you just got a promotion you’ve been dreaming about.
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You can use these emotion wheels to expand your vocabulary, and really tune in to the emotions you are experiencing. So, the broader our vocabulary, the more nuanced and comprehensive our experience of the world will be. How would they describe it to someone else? How would they put into words the concepts of electronics, telecommunications, apps, WiFi, internet, infotainment…? Heck, according to OECD information, only 12% of the population could read and write in 1820 ( source), so going back 500 years, there would be very few people who could even start to make sense of anything written, let alone a device that lets you communicate with friends or strangers on the other side of the world. It provides a visual representation of human emotions and their relationships. Imagine travelling back in time 500 years, and showing someone a mobile phone. Aspect Explanation Concept Overview Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions is a psychological model developed by American psychologist Robert Plutchik in 1980. His wheel have roots in Gloria Willcoxs Feeling Wheel. The original Plutchik’s wheel of emotions displace the 8 basic emotions according to proximity and opposition principles the same principles are respected in PyPlutchik layout.
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Why? Because the words we know literally shape our experience of the world. Our version is a variation of Pastor Geoffrey Roberts I Feel - Emotional Word Wheel, geared towards people who have limited emotional vocabulary. Plutchik’s theory established the foundation for conceptualizing the domain of emotion (primary and secondary) in animals and humans. How many of them could you name? The more rich and comprehensive our emotional vocabulary, the better we can connect with, understand, and communicate our emotional experience. A theory of emotion and emotional consequences for cognition, personality, and psychotherapy derived from an evolutionary perspective. Being able to identify emotions is a key building block of emotional intelligence.Īccording to, there are around 34,000 human emotions (I’ve collected about a thousand of them in this post). An emotion wheel is a great visual aid to help us identify how we’re feeling, and also to expand our emotional vocabulary.