Emotion Emotion by Robert Plutchik

B. Emotion

Psychology of film is a film study which gaze the work as the psychological activity. Psychology studies beside carefully examined characterization’s character in psychologist but also the thinking aspects and author feeling when create it. 4 An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior. Emotions are memorable experiences and ever present in daily life. Moments when we feel love, affection, fear, anger, or sadness may be remembered for years. These moments influence our thinking, guide our behavior, and confuse us. 5 Emotions have been studied from three points of view, namely conscious awareness, physiology, and emotional expression. Conscious awareness is the introspective study of emotional experience, Physiology is general organic responses in emotion and Emotional expression is genetic study of human response. And for this analysis, the writer chooses emotional expression, which’s by Robert Plutchik. 6

C. Emotion by Robert Plutchik

Robert Plutchiks psycho evolutionary theory of emotion is one of the most influential classification approaches for general emotional responses. He considered 4 Suwardi Endaswara, Metodologi Penelitian Sastra: Epistimologi, Model, Teori, dan Aplikasi, Yogyakarta: MedPress, 2008, p. 96 5 Philip R. Newman and Barbara M. Newman 1983, loc. cit 6 Henry E. Garrett, General Psychology,2nd edition, New York: American Book Company, 1961, pp. 178-179 eight primary emotions, namely anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise, anticipation, acceptance, and joy. Plutchik proposed that these basic emotions are biologically primitive and have evolved in order to increase the reproductive fitness of the human. Plutchik argues for the primacy of these emotions by showing each to be the trigger of behavior with high survival value. According to this theory, emotions are a set of expressive patterns based on adaptive behaviors. Emotions have developed into a system of communication that conveys the inner states of the individual to others. Robert Plutchik was professor emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and adjunct professor at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and also a psychologist. He has authored and coauthored more than 260 articles, 45 chapters and eight books and has edited seven books. His research interests include the study of emotions, the study of suicide and violence, and the study of the psychotherapy process. 7 Although emotional substrates cannot always be discerned in the behavior of nonhuman animals, many stimuli are experienced by people and animals alike and result in prototypical behavior followed by, generally, the reestablishment of an equilibrium state that might not have been achieved without the impulse precipitated by the inner state. In human experience it is common to use the term “emotion” to describe the feeling state, but in fact emotion is considerably more complex. 7 Robert Plutchik, loc. cit Plutchik‘s three-dimensional circumflex model describes the relations among emotion concepts, which are analogous to the colors on a color wheel. The cone’s vertical dimension represents intensity, and the circle represents degrees of similarity among the emotions. The eight sectors are designed to indicate that there are eight primary emotion dimensions defined by the theory arranged as four pairs of opposites. In the exploded model the emotions in the blank spaces are the primary dyads—emotions that are mixtures of two of the primary emotions.

D. The Types of Emotion