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Complex emotion: an emotional experience that is a compound

Complex emotion: an emotional experience that is a compound of simpler basic emotions, where decomposition into constituent parts enables understanding and targeted response that the unanalyzed compound resists

Why This Is a Definition

Genus: compound of basic emotions. Differentia: decomposition enables targeted response.

Source Lessons

L-1204

Basic emotions versus complex emotions

Complex emotions like jealousy are compounds of simpler emotions — decompose to understand.

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