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Emotions have been studied in several scientific disciplines—e.g., biology, psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, anthropology, and sociology—as well as in business management, advertising, and communications. As a result, distinctive perspectives on emotion have emerged, appropriate to the complexity and variety of the emotions themselves. It is important, however, to take those different perspectives not as competitive but as complementary, each potentially yielding insight into what may be called the different “structures” of emotions. To say that emotions have structures (or a structure) is to reject the view that they are merely amorphous “feelings” or that they have no order, logic, or rationality. ...(100 of 4917 words)