Abstract
Drawing on a pluralist approach to mindreading, I explore Direct Social Perception with respect to
perceiving the emotional states of people that we are close to, such as spouses, friends, and family. I argue
that in general, emotions are embodied and can be perceived directly. I further claim that perceptual
content includes concepts. That is, I argue against a non-conceptual view of emotion recognition,
claiming instead that we learn emotional concepts by attending to certain expressive patterns of
emotions. This view implicates that we can directly perceive both basic and non-basic emotions of people
we are close to.