Emotions and Emotion Words
Published 1 January 1995
Nico H. Frijda, Suprapti S. Markam, Kaori Sato, Reínout W. Wiers
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Abstract
The relationship between emotions and emotion words can be viewed in two different ways. One can assume that there exist words ("emotion words") that dictate the way things are seen; or one can assume that there exist things ("emotions") that are given names and thus have words assigned to them.
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