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Pwcholosical Review COPYrilhll992 by Ihe American Ps~hololic.1 ssoc.aon. Ine. 1992. VoI. 99. No. 3. SSO-SS3 0033·29SX/92/$3.00 Are There Basic Emotions? Paul Ekman University of California, San Francisco Ortony and Turners (1990) arguments against those who adopt the view that there are basic emotions are challenged. The evidence on universals in expression and in physiology strongly sug~ests that ~he~e is a biological basis to the emotions that have been studied. Ortony and Turners reviews of thls hterature are faulted, and their alternative theoretical explanations do not fit the evidence. The utility of the basic emotions approach is also shown in terms of the research it has generated. In their argument against basic emotions. Ortony and Turner Facial Expressions (990) distinguished two ways in which that phrase has been Although they acknowledged some agreement in the litera- used: (a) to describe elements that combine to form larger more ture about wh ich emotions are basic. and admitted that some of complex emotions and (b) to denote emotions that are pre- the disagreements they emphasized are due to the type of data sumed to have a biological basis. I will not comment on