A Study of Latent Dimensions of Emotion

This study attempted to explore latent structure of emotion structure from its input to output. At first, basic emotions were chosen, which were mentioned before in previous studies. Three perspectives were observed, the feeling of emotions subjectively experienced, cognitive appraisal of those emotions, and spoken expression of them. The criteria to discriminate these basic emotions were investigated on these three cases. Factor analyses and multidimensional scaling presented latent structure of subjective feeling was explained well by valence and arousal factors as in the case of facial expression. However, these dimensions was not found so important in case of cognitive appraisal and verbal expression of emotions. Instead, causal attribution and intention to communicate seemed to be important dimensions respectively in cognitive appraisal and verbal expression of emotions. Finally the implications of this study were discussed briefly.

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Vol.14 No.1

A Study of Latent Dimensions of Emotion

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Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology