Tag: psychology

Feeling messed up is not the same thing as messing up. People can feel like something is wrong with them regardless of whether they’ve made any mistakes. Who is to say when a… more emotion Messed Up

The emotions of jealousy and envy both cast a hungry eye, but with different appetites. In 1993, social psychologists W. Gerrod Parrott and Richard H. Smith conducted a study into the perceived differences… more emotion Envy

In the middle of the last century, psychologist Paul Ekman declared, on the basis of a thin body of poorly-designed research, that all of human emotional experience can be reduced to just six… more emotion Revolted

In the mid-20th century, a school of psychologists attempted to establish a system for objectively identifying basic universal emotions, agreed upon by all people regardless of of cultural differences and individual experiences. Their… more emotion Contempt