Anticipatory feelings are associated with a state of awareness and an adaptation to future events.

Anticipation: Involving excitement, enthusiasm, irritation, pleasure, expectations, uncertainty, awaiting some event.

It stimulates interest but may also induce caution to allow time for cognitive appraisal. Your children can either spin the wheel or simply look at this handy thesaurus to find new words for feelings and alternatives for ‘said’.In a ring around the inside of the wheel. Great as a writing aid and spelling reference.

Surprise: Emotions of surprise are a mismatch between the experience expected and the experience that occurs it may create feelings such as amusement, shock, wonderment, disbelief, speechlessness. This fabulous word wheel includes vocabulary to describe characters emotions, and suitable synonyms for said.

Biologically, it helps avoid dangers signaled by prior associative learning. In the center of the wheel are the character adaptations, which are five systems of adaptation that have evolved that enable humans to adjust to the demands of the environment.

Fear: A primitive emotion that may manifest in frankness, apprehension, nervousness, worry, anxiety, uncertainty, terror.

It's the first stage of psychosocial development and affects their view of the world.

Trust: An abstract feeling of hopefulness, positivity, safety, belief in others.

It's a life-sustaining behavior that affirms the continuation of repetitive successful behaviors.

Joy: An emotion that deals with elation, euphoria, triumph, jubilation, and a deep sense of contentment.Disgust's biological significance is to promote reproductive success and avoid life-threatening objects and environments. Disgust: Signs of disgust refer to feelings of aversion, revulsion, and a rejection of contact or seeking contact.It's a genetically programmed defense of territory.

Feelings of hostility, rage, aggression, and dissatisfaction may be prevalent and bring aggressive behavior like fighting. Anger: Refers to a subjectively unpleasant mental experience evoked by the real or imagined harm done to an individual or what an individual values.In Plutchik's emotion wheel, the contrasting emotion is joy. For survival, the origin is rooted in infant 'separation distress' and indicates the need for emotional support. It may bring distressing emotions like weeping. Sadness: Includes feelings of sorrow, discontentment, depression, apathy, hopelessness, loneliness, and lethargy.

Emotional character wheel