20 interesting facts about emotions

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

It is difficult to argue that there is at least something unknown about the feelings that fill our every day, our dreams and dreams. But we will try to surprise you by presenting 20 interesting facts about human emotions.

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Emotions work imperceptibly for us: they trigger cognitive processes (recognition and argumentation), physical sensations, and influence behavior.

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Emotions are the strongest motivator. They are the ones who drive our desire to survive, reproduce, communicate and behave in accordance with moral principles.

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Men experience the same emotions as women. We are just taught to express our feelings in different ways.

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There are over a hundred emotions. And these are only those that we know for sure.

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The seven basic emotions are anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, delight, and happiness.

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Happiness is the most controversial emotion. Why? Because it can mean a lot: joy, affection, euphoria …

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In order to express the full range of emotions, nature has endowed us with 43 muscles responsible for facial expressions.

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Emotions can last from a split second to several minutes. We experience negative emotions longer than positive ones.

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Mood is something more lasting than emotion. We can stay in it from several minutes to several days. It also affects how you experience emotions. For example, if you're out of sorts, anger will make your blood boil much harder than usual.

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In Russian there is an expression “I feel with my guts”. Not for nothing. Emotions affect the autonomic nervous system, which controls basic body functions such as digestion, circulation, respiration, and sexual desire.

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Emotions are universal. The facial expressions of the inhabitants of Russia and Zimbabwe do not differ, provided that people experience the same emotions. But the triggers of feelings, of course, are different.

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Love is not an emotion. This is a state during which you can experience many feelings: joy, sadness, longing, anger …

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You can cultivate and change your own emotions. Thanks to the prefrontal cortex for this. You can forget about the emotion, interpret it in your own way, or even change its meaning for yourself, and hence the reaction to the feeling.

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Self-awareness is the key to everything. The sooner you recognize an emotion, the more ways you can deal with it. To understand how your mind works, try meditation.

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If you imitate this or that emotion for a long time, such as disgust or anger, these feelings will really take over you.

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Emotional intelligence is more important than mind. According to statistics, 85% of your financial well-being depends on your leadership skills, your ability to communicate and negotiate. And only 15% - from erudition.

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Your reflections on justice, commitment, strength, kindness, and mutual help are expressed in emotions such as compassion, gratitude, embarrassment, and awe. These feelings have developed in humans over thousands of years. So morality is literally embodied in ourselves.

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Only 1% of people are able to completely hide emotions from others.

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10% of people don't know exactly how they feel. This is called alexithymia. Because of this dysfunction, a person is unable to describe his emotions in words, to distinguish one feeling from another, and to understand the mood of others.

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People who are addicted to Botox injections can still experience emotions. This killer of wrinkles paralyzes some muscles of the face, and therefore sometimes it seems that the person in front of you does not feel anything at all. But this is not true. But alexithymia in a person with botox is a disaster.