In: Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson
[Human Cognitive Processing 80] 2026
► pp. 278–319
Chapter 12Love, Happiness, Joy, Contentment and Ecstasy
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Article outline
- 12.1Introduction
- 12.2SWB
- 12.3happiness/joy/contentment/ecstasy and love/interpersonal
relationship cluster concepts
- 12.3.1happiness/joy/contentment/ecstasy cluster concept
- 12.3.2love/interpersonal relationship cluster concept
- 12.3.3happiness/joy/contentment/ecstasy and love/interpersonal relationship cluster concepts: Cultural perspectives
- 12.3.4Emotion events
- 12.4Aims and hypotheses
- 12.5Results
- 12.5.1Online emotions sorting task
- 12.5.1.1Happiness/Joy and love clusters
- 12.5.1.2contentment/satisfaction/serenity and love clusters
- 12.5.1.3Love and Ecstasy/Euphoria
- 12.5.1.4contentment/satisfaction/serenity and happiness/joy clusters
- 12.5.2GRID
- 12.5.2.1Participants
- 12.5.2.2ANOVAs performed on happiness, joy and contentment
- 12.5.2.2.1valence
- 12.5.2.2.2power
- 12.5.2.2.3arousal
- 12.5.2.2.4novelty
- 12.5.2.3Correlations between the positive emotion clusters
- 12.5.2.4Correlations between positive emotion clusters and love
- 12.5.2.5Duration: Love versus miłość
- 12.5.2.6Summary of GRID results
- 12.5.3Love clusters in corpora
- 12.5.3.1Collocations of love and desire
- 12.5.3.2Collocation links between love and its typology — related concepts
- 12.5.4Love, happiness and contentment in corpus data
- 12.5.5Conclusions
- 12.5.6Types of love
- 12.5.6.1Typology of love scenarios
- 12.5.6.2Language corpora and love typology
- 12.5.6.2.1Sex-related love (and desire)
- 12.5.6.2.2Religion- and God-related love (agape love)
- 12.5.6.2.3Love of country, nation, king/queen (patriotism)
- 12.5.6.2.4Family love (storge), friendship
- 12.5.6.3Bodily and reistic expressions of love — metaphor
- 12.5.7Conclusions
- 12.5.1Online emotions sorting task
- 12.6General conclusions
- 12.6.1Positive affect component
- 12.6.1.1Intra-cluster effects
- 12.6.1.2Inter-cluster effects
- 12.6.2love/interpersonal relationship cluster
- 12.6.2.1Intra-cluster effects
- 12.6.2.2Inter-cluster effects
- 12.6.1Positive affect component
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