A family of theories proposing a limited set of biologically grounded basic emotions. Versions differ in how strongly they predict distinctive facial, physiological and behavioral patterns. A claim of fixed one-to-one patterns is stronger than a claim of inherited response biases that interact with context.
An emotion proposed as a biologically primary category in a basic emotion theory. The status of a category is a theoretical and empirical claim, not something established merely by giving observers a category word in a forced-choice emotion recognition task.

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