Research has identified 27 distinct human emotions, including admiration, joy, anxiety, and nostalgia, and others. Revealing a more nuanced emotional landscape, this challenges the traditional view that emotions can be categorized into just a few basic types.
Being aware of your emotions and how they affect you can help you find ways to cope with distressing matters that are a normal part of life. In addition to helping improve your relationships, controlling your emotions can also help you avoid mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, or self-harm.
Central to the science of emotion is the principle that emotions are centered in subjective experiences that people represent with language.
The research was supported in part by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
The 27 different emotions include:
Admiration
Adoration
Aesthetic appreciation
Amusement
Anxiety
Awe
Awkwardness
Boredom
Calmness
Confusion
Craving
Disgust
Empathetic pain
Entrancement
Envy
Excitement
Fear
Horror
Interest
Joy
Nostalgia
Romance
Sadness
Satisfaction
Sexual desire
Sympathy
Triumph
The discrete emotion theory states that certain specific core emotions are biologically determined. These emotional responses are fundamentally the same for all individuals, irrespective of ethnicity or cultural differences.
See the article at Medicine.net.
See the article at Psychology Today.
See the article by Bruce Y. Lee at Forbes.com:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/09/09/here-are-the-27-different-human-emotions-according-to-a-study/
See the research study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).