[gress]

No, because in my experience emotions are not clear and concise. They are a very complex and nuanced way of generating relatively rapid responses to our environment based on our genetics and our experience. Our experiences are complex, therefore so are our emotions.

However his book: Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self, by Donald L. Nathanson

Describes one system that I have found helpful. It's not concise, and it's not easy to read, plus there are obvious flaws, but I thought it was still as good as anything I've encountered.

[wdewind]

Sure, I guess I wasn't looking so much for an in depth text as a high level summary of different models and how they differ. Just to get an idea of what's out there.

[gress]

Unfortunately I have not found such a thing, probably because human knowledge about this is so patchy.