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)