UNDERSTANDING HOW EMOTIONS ARE RELATED
Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have. – Hermione Granger
How many emotions do you think we have? Fifty? Eighty? More than a hundred? Some people might claim that there are just six basic emotions – joy, surprise, fear, disgust, anger and sadness – and that all other emotions derive from them.
Of course, there are many, many more emotions besides these six. But are emotions such as envy and jealousy really that different from one another? What about irritation and annoyance – are they the same thing?
It’s not easy to distinguish one emotion from another; to tell where one emotion ends or another begins. And when, for example, it comes to emotions like happiness ...
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