The Family Tree of Emotions

The Family Tree of Emotions


                                    urge/reaction/attitude/feeling                        
                             ┌────────────────── happiness                                      
                             │   ┌────────────── honor                                     
maternal instinct (kin selection)━━━━━┳━━┳━━━┷━━━┷━━━━━━━━━ love(love as in agape、friendship、fellowship、brotherhood、△respect、△worship、△attachment)          
                      ┃  ┃  ┌─────────────────── loneliness                                     
                      ┃  ┃  │ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━ hate                                        
                      ┃  ┃  │ ┃ ┏━━━━━━━━━━ jealousy                                
                      ┃  ┗━━┷━┻━┻┳┳━ sadness (sorrow、grief、lament、mourn、distress                             
                      ┃          ┃┗━━━━━━━━ pity(compassion、miserable)                            
                      ┃          ┗━━━━━━━━━ guilt                         
survival instinct(natural selection)   ┃           ┏━ humor(funny)                                      
 ━┳━┳━┳━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━┻━━┳━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━ interest(interesting、curious、attention、△beauty)  
  ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃          ┃     ┣━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ fun(enjoyment、pleasant、merry、cheerful)
  ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃          ┃     ┃  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ boredom(dull)                                 
  ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃sex instinct(sexual selection)━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ infatuation(love as in eros)    
  ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━ surprise(amaze、wonder、astonish)   
  ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃                      ┗━━━━━━━ confusion(perplex, bafflement)                                       
  ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃            ┌────────────────────────── frustration(impatient、irritate、annoying、discontent、dissatisafactionm) 
  ┃ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━┳━┯━┯━┳━┳━ anger(rage、fury、△obsession、△persistence、△stubborn、△obstinate)   
  ┃ ┃   ┃                 ┃ │ │ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━ contempt(scorn、disdain、slighting)
  ┃ ┃   ┃                 ┃ │ │ ┗━━━━━━ shame(embarrass、△pride、△boast)
  ┃ ┃   ┃                 ┃ │ └───── indignation(justice、resent)
  ┃ ┃   ┃                 ┃ └────────────── resentment(grudge)                                         
  ┃ ┃   ┃                 ┗━━━━┯━━━━━━━ frustration(mortification)
  ┃ ┃   ┃                      └──────────────── irritation(impatience)
  ┃ ┃   ┃            ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ relief  
  ┃ ┗━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━┯━━━━━━━━━┳━━━ fear(afraid、terrify、frightened、dread、horror、scare、△courage、△brave)                     
  ┃                      │         ┗━━━ awe(revere)
  ┃                      └────────────────────── anxiety(apprehension)
  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ repulsion(disgust、aversion、dislike、△ugliness)
                       └──────────────────────── depression、(gloomy)     
                                ┏━━━ embarrassment(shy、bashful、△modest、△humility)
                        ┏━━━━━┳━┻━━━ delight(glad、joy、ecstasy、rapture、exultation、rejoice、△nostalgic)                                    
                        ┃     ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━ gratitude(appreciation)                
           intellect─────┬───┸─────┬──┬────────────── hope(wish、△ambition、△aspiration、△yearn、△longing、△will)
                    │         │  └───────── envy
                    │         └───────────────── confidence(△sense of superiority、△insult、△indignity)                            
                    │           ┌─────────────── helplessness(despair、hopeless、△sense of inferiority、△regret)
                    └───────────┴────── disappointment(dismay、depress、discourage)