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Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters


Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson
[Human Cognitive Processing 80] 2026
► pp. 8–33

Chapter 1
The nature of emotions

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Article outline
  • 1.1Introduction
  • 1.2Emotion, affect, core affect, feelings and mood
    • 1.2.1Emotion
    • 1.2.2Affect
    • 1.2.3Core affect
    • 1.2.4Feelings
    • 1.2.5Moods
    • 1.2.6Conclusions
  • 1.3Theories of emotion
    • 1.3.1Basic emotion theories
    • 1.3.2Appraisal theories
    • 1.3.3Constructionist emotion theories
    • 1.3.4Appraisal vs. constructionist theories
  • 1.4Clustering and blending
    • 1.4.1Blending
      • 1.4.1.1Basic emotion theories
      • 1.4.1.2Appraisal theories
      • 1.4.1.3Constructionist theories
    • 1.4.2Clustering
  • 1.5Conceptual structure of emotions
    • 1.5.1Variability in emotion concepts
    • 1.5.2Global features
    • 1.5.3Emotion events
  • 1.6Metaphor and metonymy
  • 1.7Image schema
  • 1.8Metaphor and image schema
  • 1.9Conclusions
  • Notes
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