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Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions pp 11–37Cite as

The Classification of Emotions

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There comes a time in the progression of any scientific endeavor when the elemental dimensions of a discipHne need to be more fully defined, elaborated, and differentiated. This was achieved in chemistry by the Russian chemist Dimitry Mendeleyev (1834–1907) in his construction of the periodic table of elements and in biology by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) in his classification of plants and animals.

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Thamm, R.A. (2006). The Classification of Emotions. In: Stets, J.E., Turner, J.H. (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30715-2_2

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