The 8 Basic Emotions According to Plutchik’s Wheel

  Plutchik’s wheel is a resource devised by Robert Plutchik, an American psychologist, to graph different emotions and their possible combinations in a didactic way. This researcher believed that there were some basic emotions and that these evolved throughout life, transforming over time. Emotions evolve and present modifications thanks to adaptation. In other words, human beings need to adjust their subjective world to external reality, and this interaction leads to transformations in the way they feel. Plutchik’s wheel, in a way, shows the path followed by emotions. We’re talking about a graphic in the shape of a flower with eight…