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  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • The concept of basic emotions is foundational in emotion research.
  • A recent proposal suggests expanding the classic set of six basic emotions with 12 new ones, identified by universal facial expressions.
  • Previous studies supporting this proposal utilized a response procedure involving emotion labels embedded in stories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critique the response procedure used in studies proposing new basic emotions.
  • To investigate whether this response procedure confounds emotion with story context.
  • To examine the validity of the proposed new basic emotions.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1 involved 1,230 participants in the United States.
  • Study 2 included 64 participants in India and 56 participants in China, speaking non-Indo-European languages (Malayalam and Mandarin).
  • Both studies employed a response procedure where participants were presented with an emotion label within a story and asked to select a facial expression.

Main Results:

  • Study 1 demonstrated that the response procedure could lead to facial expressions being associated with emotions different from those originally proposed.
  • Study 2 yielded similar findings with participants speaking Malayalam and Mandarin, indicating the issue is not limited to Indo-European language speakers.
  • The results suggest the response procedure may not accurately capture universal emotion recognition.

Conclusions:

  • The findings question the validity of the proposed set of 12 new basic emotions.
  • The critique highlights significant methodological concerns regarding the response procedure used in emotion research.
  • Further research is needed to develop more robust methods for identifying and validating basic emotions and their universal expressions.