Emotional granularity
Emotional granularity is the ability to put emotion into words.
Emotion is an event where your brain uses your current knowledge about your feelings to make sense of the changes in your body (increased heart rate, heavy breathing, etc.). It connects the sense data and the feelings you have with what is going on around you. For example, tightness in the chest is experienced as anxiety or determination.
The more concepts you know, the better you are able to construct your emotions more precisely to fit the situation you are in.
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