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Emotions
Six basic emotions
Happiness
Of all the different types of emotions, happiness tends to be the one that people strive for the most.
Happiness is often defined as a pleasant emotional state that is characterized by feelings of contentment, joy, gratification, satisfaction, and well-being.
This type of emotion is sometimes expressed through:
Facial expressions: such as smiling
Body language: such as a relaxed stance
Tone of voice: an upbeat, pleasant way of speaking
While happiness is considered one of the basic human emotions, the things we think will create happiness tend to be heavily influenced by culture.
For example, pop culture influences tend to emphasize that attaining certain things such as buying a home or having a high-paying job will result in happiness.
The realities of what actually contributes to happiness are often much more complex and more highly individualized. People have long believed that happiness and health were connected, and research has supported the idea that happiness can play a role in both physical and mental health.
Happiness has been linked to a variety of outcomes including increased longevity and increased marital satisfaction. Conversely, unhappiness has been linked to a variety of poor health outcomes.
Stress, anxiety, depression, and loneliness, for example, have been linked to things such as lowered immunity, increased inflammation, and decreased life expectancy.
Timeline
A friend gets angry with you → you feel ENJOYMENT → gloat
Enjoyment describes the many good feelings that arise from experiences both novel and familiar.
States of Enjoyment
Enjoyment contains both peace and ecstasy. The intensity of these states varies: We can feel mild or strong peacefulness, but we can only feel intense ecstasy. All states of enjoyment are triggered by feeling connection and/or sensory pleasure.
Actions of Enjoyment
For example, we might exclaim to express our feeling of amusement among friends, but experience our amusement quietly while alone. Expressing amusement by exclaiming can be constructive as means of sharing enjoyment, but destructive if it's in response to making fun of someone.
Sadness
Sadness is another type of emotion often defined as a transient emotional state characterized by feelings of disappointment, grief, hopelessness, disinterest, and dampened mood.
Like other emotions, sadness is something that all people experience from time to time. In some cases, people can experience prolonged and severe periods of sadness that can turn into depression.
Sadness can be expressed in a number of ways including:
Crying
Dampened mood
Lethargy
Quietness
Withdrawal from others
The type and severity of sadness can vary depending upon the root cause, and how people cope with such feelings can also differ.
Sadness can often lead people to engage in coping mechanisms such as avoiding other people, self-medicating, and ruminating on negative thoughts. Such behaviors can actually exacerbate feelings of sadness and prolong the duration of the emotion.
Fear
Disgust
Surprise
Anger
They are universally experienced in all human cultures, and they can be expressed by facial expressions.
Identified by the psychologist Paul Eckman during the 1970's.
He later expanded his list of basic emotions to include such things as pride, shame, embarrassment, and excitement.
Combining emotions
Psychologist Robert Plutchik put forth a "wheel of emotions" that worked something like the color wheel. Emotions can be combined to form different feelings, much like colors can be mixed to create other shades.
According to this theory, the more basic emotions act something like building blocks. More complex, sometimes mixed emotions, are blendings of these more basic ones. For example, basic emotions such as joy and trust can be combined to create love.