Goals of negative emotions
Negative emotions have evolved to help us coordinate our physiological, cognitive and behavioral systems for dealing with threats. Thus, each emotion has a goal:
- Dislike — to guide our general preferences
- Anger — to change someone's behavior in the short-term
- Contempt — to derogate and exclude someone
- Disgust — to avoid someone
- Hate — to eliminate someone from our life
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This post about hate (https://dsta.sh/cipiKWBBYr3BX8kW9) made me curious about the nuances of disliking someone. So I went through the original article and research paper, and got 3 cool ideas. These should help you better label your emotions as well
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Benefits Of Negative Emotions
- Sadness helps you focus on details, as it alerts you to something that isn’t right and asks us to turn our attention to why this may be.
- Anger can motivate you to address problems in order to restore peace.
- Anxiety’s discomfort quickly encourages you to seek new ways of appro...
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