An emotion identification apparatus identifying emotions of a subject includes: a sensor and a measuring unit which acquire information on at least a concentration of oxyhemoglobin in blood as bloodstream information by performing near-infrared spectroscopy measurement for one or more measurement regions only in a frontal lobe of a brain of a subject; and an identification processing unit configured to identify emotions of the subject based on the bloodstream information acquired by the sensor and the measuring unit.
EMOTION IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS