We are a very feeling\/emotional<\/em>\u00a0driven world, at least we have been socially engineered to be. Our vulnerability to emotion has been used on a macro (government, media, entertainment, marketing and advertising) and micro (work, home, worship and play relationships) level to manipulate and control our behaviors, by evoking learned behaviors to seek ways to feel better.\u00a0<\/em>Thus, we have a world that is socially conditioned, emotion driven and pleasure seeking.<\/p>\n We know that a problem well defined is already half solved.\u00a0In order to understand the realities of the problem it is helpful that we have all the information. A Study Finds article written by \u00a0Daniel Steingold on September 9th, 2017 shares the recent study by University of California, Berkeley that found 27 distinct emotional states.<\/p>\n BERKELEY, Calif. \u2014 Human emotions may not be as plentiful as the hundreds of emojis we use on social media, but they\u2019re still more complex than previously believed. A new study examining the various ways that we express ourselves determined that humans display 27 distinct emotional states.<\/p>\n The 27 emotions: admiration, adoration, aesthetic appreciation, \u00a0amusement, anger, anxiety, awe, awkwardness, boredom, \u00a0calmness, confusion, craving, disgust, empathic pain, \u00a0entrancement, excitement, fear, horror, interest, joy, nostalgia, \u00a0relief, romance, sadness, satisfaction, sexual desire, surprise<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley recruited a diverse sample of 853 men and women to watch short five-to-ten second long video clips meant to evoke a range of reactions, hoping to measure the true spectrum of human emotions.<\/p>\n Human emotions may not be as plentiful as the hundreds of emojis we use on social media, but they\u2019re still more complex than previously believed. One group disclosed their unfiltered emotional reactions to 30 clips they viewed to the researchers, allowing for raw documentation.<\/p>\n \u201cTheir responses reflected a rich and nuanced array of emotional states, ranging from nostalgia to feeling \u2018grossed out,\u2019\u201d says lead author Alan Cowen, a doctoral student in neuroscience, in a university news release.<\/p>\n A second group ranked each video in terms of the various emotional reactions it lent, ranging from anger to sexual desire. Most participants in this group gave each video similar marks when it came to the types of emotions it evoked.<\/p>\n A third group had participants evaluate the emotional content of a given video based on a sliding scale (e.g., how negative or positive a video was, or how exciting or boring it was).<\/p>\n Regardless of the group in which one was placed, nearly all participants reacted in a similar manner to any given video. Furthermore, the researchers were able to use this data to determine that humans have 27 distinct categories of emotion.<\/p>\n This finding is rather groundbreaking, considering how previous research had only identified six significant emotional states.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are smooth gradients of emotion between, say, awe and peacefulness, horror and sadness, and amusement and adoration,\u201d notes senior author Dacher Keltner. \u201cWe found that 27 distinct dimensions, not six, were necessary to account for the way hundreds of people reliably reported feeling in response to each video.\u201d<\/p>\n The research team hopes the new findings can be utilized by other scientists or doctors for further research and innovations in neuroscience.<\/p>\n \u201cOur hope is that our findings will help other scientists and engineers more precisely capture the emotional states that underlie moods, brain activity and expressive signals, leading to improved psychiatric treatments, an understanding of the brain basis of emotion and technology responsive to our emotional needs,\u201d says Cowen.<\/p>\n The team released an interactive map of the emotional states that each video used in the study elicited from participants that led them to their finding. Each of the 27 states corresponds to a color on the map.<\/p>\n The study\u2019s findings were published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n Source: \/\/www.spiritualriver.com\/alcoholism\/what-is-the-success-rate-of-recovery-in-aa\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Examining our intention, for the greater good:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.<\/em>Informational Insights: Emojis Replace Emotions<\/h2>\n
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