… lay psychology of emotion. We argue that love should be considered a basic emotion, like
… We discuss the criteria that various theorists use to distinguish basic from nonbasic emotions…

… et al., 1987; Smith & Ellsworth, 1987) and has been used to conceptualize both emotions
and emotional development (eg, Fischer, Shaver, & Carnochan, 1990). In the model, emotions, …

… The resulting correlations, .94 and .96, were almost perfect. Correlations between our … and
love in ours; finally, five of our six basic emotions are included in Izard's (1977) list (all but love …

… Mikulincer & PR Shaver, 2003), we review relevant evidence, present new … react emotionally
to relational events. Specifically, we focus on attachment-related variations in the emotional …

… 96) very general three-part definition of emotion, which may … negative emotions – and five
basic-level categories: love and … emotions emerge universally as cognitively basic emotions? …

… constructs (including nonbasic emotions and sentiments). This … of emotion theory that fail
to align well with love. By showing that love fits the model of neither basic emotions nor emotion …

… As an example we will consider Continuing Bonds (Klass et al., 1996), an extremely
interesting and valuable book whose editors wish to replace the ideas of decathexis and …

… One area of disagreement among different basic emotion approaches is over the list of
basic emotions. Shaver et al. (1996) have summarized the basic emotion lists proposed by …

… unique emotion, a member of a broader basic emotion category, or a blend of basic emotions…
implicit or explicit theories of emotion. In their early study of the hierarchical organization of …

… love at first sight and to agree with the statement, "It is relatively easy to fall in love; I find
myself falling in love often" (Hazan & Shaver, … , 1996). Because anxious people tend to fall in …