Anticipation, and its opposing emotion, surprise.
Plutchik believed that humans experience eight primary emotions, and each of these emotions has a polar opposite that is also included on the wheel: His theory of emotion expanded on previous theories, some of which had labeled six primary emotions that all human beings feel. Robert Plutchik, an American psychologist, created the Emotion Wheel in 1980. It was part of his overarching Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion. The Emotion Wheel was created by Robert Plutchik to help patients identify and describe the 8 core emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Anticipation, Surprise, Disgust, and Trust. The Importance of Emotional Intelligence What Is the Emotion Wheel?
