Thursday, 26 June 2014

Humans Have More Than Two-Dozen Universal Emotions

SAN FRANCISCO — Ask a woman from a remote village in Bhutan to act as if she's embarrassed, amused or awed, and chances are, a teenage boy in the United States could guess exactly what emotion she was portraying.

Human beings have dozens of universal expressions for emotions, and they deploy those expressions in recognizable ways across several cultures, new research finds.

That number is far greater than the range of emotion previously thought to be the similar around the world. 





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