The eight sectors of Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions are the 8 primary emotions: anger, anticipation, joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, and disgust. Therefore, it is often referred to as the emotion color wheel. Just like you can mix colors to form different colors so can you mix emotions to form different emotions. There is a connection between the emotion wheel and a color wheel as primary emotions, like colors, can be expressed at different intensities. Plutchik created a wheel of emotions to illustrate the combinations of emotions and to describe how emotions are related. The 8 primary emotions are arranged by colors that establish a set of similar emotions. An emotion is a conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as a strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body. 4 How does the emotion wheel help us? What is an emotion?Īccording to the Merriam Webster dictionary an emotion is a strong feeling (such as love, anger, joy, hate, or fear).
