
Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions
Wheel of Emotions
The Definitive Guide
This is the Ultimate Guide to The Wheel of Emotions!
If you’re looking to identify your emotions, cater to your emotional needs and increase your emotional intelligence, you have come to just the place!
So if you want to:

- Learn about how your emotions influence you
- Learn about Plutchik’s psychoevolutionary theory and his Emotions Wheel
- Find out how to effectively use your emotions at the workplace and as a coach
- And find your core emotion
Then you’ll love this guide!
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Chapter 2
History of the Wheel of Emotions

Chapter 3
Plutchik’s Psychoevolutionary Theory of Basic Emotions

Chapter 4
Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions

Chapter 5
Finding your Core Emotion

Chapter 6
The Wheel of Emotions at the Workplace

Chapter 7
Benefits : How Teachers and Coaches use The Emotions Wheel to thrive
Chapter 1:
The Fundamentals
You and I are both aware of how confusing and overwhelming emotions can be sometimes.
But what if you could explore and truly understand them with an Emotion Wheel?

Robert Plutchik’s and The Feeling’s Wheel
Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions provides a logical way to make sense of feelings!
The Feeling’s Wheel was developed by American psychologist Robert Plutchik in 1980 as a visual tool to understand his psycho evolutionary theory. I will go on to explain this in detail in Chapter 3.
The Emotion Wheel offers a visual representation of primary emotions, displaying the varying degrees and complexities of different feelings.
As a tool, it can help you put a name to, and come to terms with your emotions in many different contexts, including simply developing greater self-awareness.
I have explained The Feelings Wheel in detail in Chapter 4.
Before you and I dive deeper into our emotional world, let’s get to know the man behind these transformative theories.
Chapter 2:
History of the Wheel of Emotions
Many psychologists throughout history have come up with their versions of the Feelings Wheel.
But Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions is the most popular and accurate one.
He has studied the human mind and emotions extensively.
Emotions as you all know are extremely complex and varied, thus, for his time, he was one of the pioneers of this subject.


Who was Robert Plutchik ?
Robert Plutchik was a professor emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and adjunct professor at the University of South Florida.
Having received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, he was also a psychologist. He has authored and co-authored more than 260 articles and eight books, and edited seven books.
His research interests included the study of emotions, the study of suicide and violence, and the study of the psychotherapy process.
Emotions are a big part of your life and mine. But how to define them? How do they influence our actions?
Definition of Emotion
According to the Britannica, an emotion is a complex experience of consciousness, bodily sensation, and behavior that reflects the personal significance of a thing, an event, or a state of affairs.
5 Ways in which Emotions Influence our Actions
Emotions influence everyone's actions.
Whether you are a man or a woman and whether you are aware of it or not.
Here are five ways to make you aware of exactly how emotions influence our actions :
