How to use emotional wheels in your own lifeīeing in touch with your emotions isn’t just some free spirit, 70s-style way of thinking: being able to name negative emotions has been shown to de-escalate their intensity.
withdrawing, while fear and anger translates to keeping quiet/hiding vs. For example, joy and sadness translates to making connections vs.
Each opposing emotional pair is attached to an opposing pair of physical reactions.It shows how two emotions combine to create a third (e.g.He believed emotions served an evolutionary purpose, theorizing that each primary emotion triggers us to act or behave in a way that furthers our survival. Joy and sadness, fear and anger, anticipation and surprise, trust and disgustĬreated in 1980, Robert Plutchik’s flower-shaped diagram remains one of the most popular emotional wheels. Renowned American psychologist Robert Plutchik A colorful eight-point flower placed within a larger octagon - initial emotions sit closer to the center, with related/subsequent emotions moving in stages down each petal
