However, affective responses are not easily classified into distinctive emotion responses due to the overlapping of emotions.
Facial expressions of positive emotion (i.e. happiness) are intrinsically easier to recognize than negative emotions, at least using conventional emotion stimuli; a smile is both highly distinctive and pathognomonic of happiness (Adolphs, 2002), whereas negative emotions (such as anger and disgust) rely on more fine-grained encoding across a broader range of distinctive emotion categories.
Alison differs from his present-day counterpart by defining the qualities she now terms "aesthetic" according to the distinctive emotions he takes each to produce.
As a result, distinctive perspectives on emotion have emerged, appropriate to the complexity and variety of the emotions themselves.
Kurth's arguments for concluding that anxiety is a distinctive type of emotion that has aretaic value and his discussions of the challenges this poses to influential accounts of virtue and agency deserve special praise.
It advances in the habitual, providing illustrations of the sorts of things that he and his friends did, without ever conveying the existential pressure of something that actually happened, in a single moment, in a specific and physical way, with a distinctive and unshakeable emotion.
There is this guy, who reads political nursery rhymes in character, and a tip o' the hat to him, but the "Special Comments" have been ripe for parody for a while, owing to their distinctive style, strong emotion and association with Olbermann's persona (book!).
He captures Nureyev's distinctive complexity of emotions in Study No. 10, his famous bruised lips in Study No. 40 and his delicious hauteur in Study No. 24.
Next, the facial features are trained according to a specific classifier in order to determine explicitly distinctive boundaries between emotions.
(One of the distinctive features of emotions as psychic forces, according to such writers, is that they arise and influence us relatively independently of conscious judgment).
In the seventeenth century in particular, just about everybody (and their maiden aunt and bachelor uncle) seems to have joined in the hunt for new and distinctive lists of emotions.
