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Human Emotions Fact That Will Surprise You |
We all have emotions that rob our lives!
1) There are 8 primary emotions: joy, acceptance, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. Other complex emotions like guilt are derived from the combinations of these primary emotions.
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2) There are more than 400 English words assigned to emotions and sentiments.
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3) A human can make over 10,000 facial expressions to express a wide variety of emotions.
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4) There are about 18 different smiles, including polite, cruel, and false. But only one reflects genuine happiness, known as the Duchenne smile.
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5) Only around 1% of the world population can successfully hide their emotions. Are you good at hiding?
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6) Women and men experience the same amount of emotions. It’s just women tend to show it more.
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7) Love is NOT an emotion. It’s an “attachment” which spirals into different emotions and moods, like anger, jubilance, and worry.
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8) Emotions are extremely contagious. And unsurprisingly, negative emotions and more contagious than the positive ones.
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9) If you adjust your facial expression to reflect an emotion, you actually start to feel that emotion. So smile at least 30 seconds every morning and see the magic.
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10) Emotions outlast memories, according to studies on people with amnesia. So never make someone feel bad. Never.
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11) Sleeping helps in loosen up the emotional distress, leaving you feel slightly better. Go ahead, sleep now!
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