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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Central to the science of emotion is the principle that emotions are centered in subjective experiences that people represent with language.<\/p>\n
The research was supported in part by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 27 different emotions include:<\/p>\n Admiration The discrete emotion theory<\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n See the article at Medicine.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n See the article at Psychology Today<\/a>. <\/p>\n See the article by Bruce Y. Lee at Forbes.com: <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucelee\/2017\/09\/09\/here-are-the-27-different-human-emotions-according-to-a-study\/<\/p>\n See the research study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[249,248],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-basic-emotions","tag-emotion-theory"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAdoration
\nAesthetic appreciation
\nAmusement
\nAnxiety
\nAwe
\nAwkwardness
\nBoredom
\nCalmness
\nConfusion
\nCraving
\nDisgust
\nEmpathetic pain
\nEntrancement
\nEnvy
\nExcitement
\nFear
\nHorror
\nInterest
\nJoy
\nNostalgia
\nRomance
\nSadness
\nSatisfaction
\nSexual desire
\nSympathy
\nTriumph<\/p>\n