Many psychologists identify six emotions as basic (happy, sad, angry, frightened, disgusted, surprised) . One type of evidence they cite in favor of this belief is that

A) people throughout the world can pair these labels with the corresponding facial expressions.
B) most human languages have six and only six words referring to emotions.
C) each of those emotions is associated with activity of a different neurotransmitter.
D) reconstructions of the probable life of early humans lead to a theoretical prediction that we should have six emotions.

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Tanya Robinson · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : A, Explanation :  One type of evidence that psychologists cite in favor of the belief that there are six basic emotions is that people throughout the world can pair labels such as happy, sad, angry, frightened, disgusted, and surprised with the corresponding facial expressions. This suggests that these emotions may be universal and innate.

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