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There is a lot of debate in psychology about which emotions are primary and which ones are secondary/reactive. From a neurological perspective, the only primary emotions are depression, love, fear, disgust, surprise, and happiness. If you were to chart the brain during a state of anger, then you would find a mixture of the parts of the brain that represent these emotions lighting up. There is no specific center for anger, and so it is considered a secondary emotion, or an emotion which is comprised of many different primary emotions. Philosophically speaking, you could argue that anger is a primary emotion because it is virtually universal to all humans.
Love follows stages, and some people argue that it should be divided into two or three primary emotions.
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I think Anger is a primary emotion actually. We have to deal with it. In Buddhism they talk about the 3 poisons which are Anger, greed and stupidity .
There is a lot of debate in psychology about which emotions are primary and which ones are secondary/reactive. From a neurological perspective, the only primary emotions are depression, love, fear, disgust, surprise, and happiness. If you were to chart the brain during a state of anger, then you would find a mixture of the parts of the brain that represent these emotions lighting up. There is no specific center for anger, and so it is considered a secondary emotion, or an emotion which is comprised of many different primary emotions. Philosophically speaking, you could argue that anger is a primary emotion because it is virtually universal to all humans.
Love follows stages, and some people argue that it should be divided into two or three primary emotions.
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