

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).
