“Ask yourself if the emotion is tied to external stimuli that you observed or that happened to you. If the answer is yes, the emotion is primary. Ask yourself if you are feeling the emotion more intensely as time passes. If the answer is yes, then it is a secondary emotion. Ask yourself if you experience the emotion more times than the event that evoked the emotion. If the answer is yes, then the emotion is a secondary one. Ask yourself if the emotion went away when the event that caused it stopped. If the answer is yes, the emotion is a primary.”