A study found that people feel less sad if the feeling of sadness is personified, as it leads to a certain distance between the person and the emotion.
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By imagining that Sadness is a person, the sad person becomes detached from his/her sadness.
They can picture the sadness to have human traits or mannerisms, leading to an internal regulation of that particular emotion.
As we associate sadness with a negative feeling, we tend to try to run away from it.
However, one way to get rid of such fears like being sad is by actually embracing our negative emotions and understanding them.
Sadness is another type of emotion often defined as a transient emotional state characterized by feelings of: dissapointment, grief, hopelesness, disintresst, and dampened mood.
Like other emotions sadness is something that we all experience from time to ti...
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