The meaning of emotion: Cultural and biological evolution impact how humans feel feelings
Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 14:11
in Psychology & Sociology
Words for emotions like "anger" and "fear" vary in meaning across language families. Researchers have now compared colexifications of emotion words—cases where one word signifies multiple semantically related concepts. By analyzing such words in 2,474 spoken languages, they found variation in emotion conceptualization and evidence of a universal structure in colexification networks.