1
$\begingroup$

To the best of my understanding, the five factor model of personality comes from a factor analysis on a large list of adjectives that can be used to describe an individual's personality. It is validated, in some sense, by its usefulness in predicting behavior and life outcomes in a wide range of contexts.

It seems like something very similar could be done for emotion. I.e. list words describing a persons present state (angry, remorseful, sad, bitter, frustrated, etcetera) and do a factor analysis on those. Then, see if the resulting model (assuming that the analysis yields something useful) is predictive of shorter term / state dependent behavior.

Has any work like this been done?

Improve this question
$\endgroup$
2
  • $\begingroup$ Does this answer your question? What is the most comprehensive system of describing human emotions or states of mind? $\endgroup$
    – Bryan Krause ♦
    Jun 17 '20 at 19:12
  • $\begingroup$ @BryanKrause That's very helpful, but I don't think it fully answers the question. The use of factor analysis gives the big 5 a nice statistical foundation where you can say such and such roughly orthogonal factors explain a certain amount of variance. I was hoping for something similar here. But maybe there isn't a strong analog to the big 5? $\endgroup$
    – user37344
    Jun 17 '20 at 20:21
1
$\begingroup$

The recently published Atlas of personality, emotion and behaviour is possibly what you are looking for(Mobbs, 2020). Over 3,000 emotions are included in the analysis, a summary of which is below. The article has a more comprehensive version. The five factor model was derived through factorisation whereas the atlas was developed using a lexical/network approach.

References

Mobbs AED (2020) An atlas of personality, emotion and behaviour. PLOS ONE 15(1): e0227877. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227877

Declared Interest

I am the author of the atlas paper.

Improve this answer
$\endgroup$
1
  • 1
    $\begingroup$ Thanks for sharing this. It does appear to meet several of the criteria. $\endgroup$
    – user37344
    Jun 18 '20 at 1:04

Your Answer

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.