
Robert PlutchikΒ (21 October 1927 β 29 April 2006) was professor emeritus at theΒ Albert Einstein College of MedicineΒ and adjunct professor at theΒ University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. fromΒ Columbia UniversityΒ and he was also aΒ psychologist. He authored or coauthored more than 260 articles, 45 chapters and eight books and edited seven books. His research interests included the study ofΒ emotions, the study ofΒ suicideΒ andΒ violence, and the study of theΒ psychotherapyΒ process.
According to my today’s prompt , I’ll definitely focus on his theory of emotions.Β He considered there to be eight primary emotionsβanger,Β fear,Β sadness,Β disgust,Β surprise,Β anticipation,Β trust, andΒ joy. Plutchik proposed that these ‘basic’ emotions are biologically primitive and have evolved in order to increase the reproductive fitness of the animal. Plutchik argues for the primacy of these emotions by showing each to be the trigger of behaviour with high survival value, such as the way fear inspires theΒ fight-or-flight response.
Robert Plutchik’s theoryΒ
Robert Plutchik’s theory says that the eight basic emotions are: