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Reading Two: Theorists in psychology

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Theorists Table

	Basic Emotions	Basis for Inclusion
Arnold	Anger, aversion, courage, dejection, desire, despair, fear, hate, hope, love, sadness	Relation to action tendencies
Ekman, Friesen, and Ellsworth	Anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise	Universal facial expressions
Frijda	Desire, happiness, interest, surprise, wonder, sorrow	Forms of action readiness
Gray	Rage and terror, anxiety, joy	Hardwired
Izard	Anger, contempt, disgust, distress, fear, guilt, interest, joy, shame, surprise	Hardwired
James	Fear, grief, love, rage	Bodily involvement
McDougall	Anger, disgust, elation, fear, subjection, tender-emotion, wonder	Relation to instincts
Mowrer	Pain, pleasure	Unlearned emotional states
Oatley and Johnson-Laird	Anger, disgust, anxiety, happiness, sadness	Do not require propositional content
Panksepp	Expectancy, fear, rage, panic	Hardwired
Plutchik	Acceptance, anger, anticipation, disgust, joy, fear, sadness, surprise	Relation to adaptive biological processes
Tomkins	Anger, interest, contempt, disgust, distress, fear, joy, shame, surprise	Density of neural firing
Watson	Fear, love, rage	Hardwired
Weiner and Graham	Happiness, sadness	Attribution independent
	Basic Emotions	Basis for Inclusion

Ortony, A., & Turner, T. J. (1990). What's basic about basic emotions? Psychological Review, 97, 315-331.

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This is another table -- another way of working on who we are and what we can believe about ourselves. It comes from http://www.personalityresearch.org/bigfive.html#table. Many of these names and subjects are hot links and can provide ideas and insights about the study of human nature. Remember to go to the original site for hot links.

	Extraversion/ Surgency	Agreeableness	Conscientiousness	Emotional Stability	Intellect/ Openness
Adler	Superiority Striving	Social Interest			Superiority Striving
Bakan	Agency	Communion			Agency
Bales	Dominant Initiative	Social-Emotional Orientation	Task Orientation
Bartholomew	Model of Other (Avoidance) (r)			Model of Self (Anxiety) (r)
Block	Low Ego Control		High Ego Control	Ego Resiliency
Buss and Plomin	Activity		Impulsivity	Emotionality (r)
Cattell	Exvia (vs. Invia)	Pathemia (vs. Cortertia)	Superego Strength	Adjustment vs. Anxiety	Independence vs. Subduedness
Comrey	Extraversion and Activity	Femininity	Orderliness and Social Conformity	Emotional Stability	Rebelliousness
Costa and McCrae	Extraversion	Agreeableness	Conscientiousness	Neuroticism (r)	Openness
Digman	Beta	Alpha			Beta
Erikson		Basic Trust
Eysenck	Extraversion	Psychoticism (r)		Neuroticism (r)
Fiske	Confident Self-Expression	Social Adaptability	Conformity	Emotional Control	Inquiring Intellect
Freud		Psychosexual Development
Goldberg	Surgency	Agreeableness	Conscientiousness	Emotional Stability	Intellect
Gough	Extraversion	Consensuality	Control		Flexibility
Guilford	Social Activity	Paranoid Disposition (r)	Thinking Introversion	Emotional Stability
Hogan	Ambition and Sociability	Likeability	Prudence	Adjustment	Intellectance
Horney		Moving Toward
Jackson	Outgoing, Social Leadership	Self-Protective Orientation (r)	Work Orientation	Dependence (r)	Aesthetic / Intellectual
Leary	Control / Dominance	Affiliation / Love
Maslow	Self-Actualization				Self-Actualization
McAdams	Power Motivation	Intimacy Motivation			Power Motivation
Myers- Briggs	Extraversion vs. Introversion	Feeling vs. Thinking	Judging vs. Perception		Intuition vs. Sensing
Peabody	Power	Love	Work	Affect	Intellect
Rank	Individuation	Union			Individuation
Rogers	Personal Growth				Personal Growth
Skinner		Socialization
Tellegen	Positive Emotionality		Constraint	Negative Emotionality	Absorption
Watson		Socialization			Agency
Wiggins	Agency	Communion
Zuckerman	Extraversion		Psychoticism, Impulsivity, Sensation Seeking (r)	Neuroticism (r)	Psychoticism, Impulsivity, Sensation Seeking
	Extraversion/ Surgency	Agreeableness	Conscientiousness	Emotional Stability	Intellect/ Openness

Adapted from Digman [1997], Griffin & Bartholomew [1994], John [1990], and McCrae & Costa [1996].

http://www.personalityresearch.org/bigfive.html#table

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