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Disgust
Disgust is another of the original six basic emotions. Disgust can be displayed in a nuber of ways including:
- Body language: turning away from the object of disgust
- Physical reactions: such as vomiting or retching
- Facial expressions: such as wrinkling the nose and curling the upper lip
This sense of revulsion can originate from a number of things, including an unpleasant taste, sight, or smell. This may be the body's way of avoiding things that may carry transmittable diseases.
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Fear
Fear is a powerfull emotion that can also play an important role in survival. When you face some sort of danger and experience fear, you go through what is known as the fight or flight response
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Other types of emotions
The six basic emotions are just an portion of the many different types of emotions that people are capable of expriencing.
Here are some other emotions:
- Amusement
- Contempt
- Contentment
- Embarrassment
- Excitement
- Guilt
- ...
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Combined emotions
Emotions can be combined to form different feelings, much like colors can be mixed to create other shades.
The more basic emotions act something like building blocks. More complex, sometimes mixed emotions, are blendings of these more basic ones. For example, basic emotions such as joy and ...
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Anger
Anger can be a particularly powerful emotion characterized by feelings of hostility, agitation, frustration, and antagonism towards others. Like fear, anger can play a part in your body's fight or flight response.
Anger is often displayed through:
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Happiness
Happiness tends to be the one emotion that everyone strives for the most. Happiness is often defined as a pleasent emotional state that is characterized by feelings of contentment: joy, gratification, statisfaction, and well being.
This typ...
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Anger
While anger is often thought of as a negative emotion, it can sometimes be a good thing. It can be constructive in helping clarify your needs in a relationship, and it can also motivate you to take action and find solutions to things that are bothering you.
Anger
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Basic Emotions
There are many different types of emotions that have an influence on how we live and interact with others.
The choices we make, the actions we take, and the perceptions we have are all influenced by the emotions we are experiencing at any given mom...
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Sadness
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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Suprise
Suprise is another one of the six basic types of human emotions. suprise is usually quite brief and unexpected. This type of emotion can be positive, negative, or neutral. suprize is often characterized by:
- Facial expressions: such as raising the brows...
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The 6 Types of Basic Emotions and Their Effect on Human Behavior
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