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Re: [lojban] on emotions again




> 
> The lojban "emotional" system is very rich and I feel that future
> lojbanic poets and musicians will find great ways to use it.
> However, not being a poet myself, I feel I miss some of the lojban
> potentials not being able to go beyond the most simple emotions.
> 
> So; i made some research and found psychology studies on the Internet
> that could be help me (and hopefully others) to better understand the
> lojban emotional systems.
> 
> One I found interesting is Plutchik's wheel of emotions:
> http://www.ebookopen.com/greener/images/Plutchikfig6.gif , It is
> somewhat lojbanic in the sense that complex emotions are considered as
> combination of simpler emotioins (for example "love" is "joy"+"trust")
> 
> To my shame, I found I could translate very few of those "basic
> emotions", it would be great if someone could help me translate them,
> I'll try to devise some graphical representation for a cheat sheet!
> 
> Anyone?
> 

Some years ago, I took a stab at this.  It turned out to be more difficult 
than I expected.  Lojban emotions don't map very well onto Plutchik's wheel.

See attached speadsheet.

totus

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Attachment: Plutchiks wheel.xls
Description: application/excel