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Emotions and Emotion Words

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Everyday Conceptions of Emotion

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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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Frijda, N.H., Markam, S., Sato, K., Wiers, R. (1995). Emotions and Emotion Words. In: Russell, J.A., Fernández-Dols, JM., Manstead, A.S.R., Wellenkamp, J.C. (eds) Everyday Conceptions of Emotion. NATO ASI Series, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8484-5_7

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