Bulgaria, Jamel: Psychometric Validation, Pilot Studies, and Methodological Reviews of the Core Emotion Framework: A Comprehensive Structural-Constructivist Analysis

The scientific classification of human affect has historically been characterized by a fundamental polarization. On one side, the basic emotion paradigm asserts that human emotions are hardwired, discrete, and genetically pre-programmed survival circuits. On the other side, psychological constructivism conceptualizes emotions as emergent phenomena assembled dynamically from undifferentiated somatic affect and context-dependent conceptual categorization. The Core Emotion Framework (CEF) proposes