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26 The Circumplex Model of Emotion around the circle, and correlate inversely with those attributes directly opposite on the circle. In factor analytic terms, a circumplex solution implies that the attribute set lacks simple structure (Harmon, 1976). Advocating a circumplex structure for emotion is equivalent to making several assertions about the nature of the emotion domain. At the most fundamental level, posi ting a circumplex presumes that some emotions are similar to each other yet measurably different than other emotions. Structural theories of emotion presume that emotions are not all unrelated and discrete but instead that emotions have certain underlying similarities and differences. Second, by advocating the circumplex model, a claim is made that the majority of emotional experience can be captured by two affect dimensions. By implication, proposed structures with fewer or more dimensions will be judged …