12 Laws of the Emotions
PsyBlog: 12 Laws of the Emotions
Explore your feelings, and how they affect your behaviour, with this new series on the psychology of the emotions.We tend to think of our emotions as having laws unto themselves, but one psychological researcher has suggested that our emotions do follow certain general rules.
This post begins a new series on the psychology of emotions with Professor Nico Frijda’s twelve laws of the emotions (Fridja, 2006). As for most laws there are exceptions, but these have been synthesised from years of psychological research and hold true much of the time..
