Many Psychologists Identify Six Emotions as Basic (Happy, Sad, Angry

question 47

Multiple Choice

Many psychologists identify six emotions as basic (happy, sad, angry, frightened, disgusted, surprised) . One type of evidence they cite in favor of this belief is that

• A) people throughout the world can pair these labels with the corresponding facial expressions.
• B) most human languages have six and only six words referring to emotions.
• C) each of those emotions is associated with activity of a different neurotransmitter.
• D) reconstructions of the probable life of early humans lead to a theoretical prediction that we should have six emotions.

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