1) Ancient doctors believed that the different organs of our body controlled certain states of mind.
For example, the heart was responsible for happiness, the liver for anger, and the kidneys were responsible for fear.
2) In the seventeenth century, René Descartes believed that emotions were generated through an internal hydraulic mechanism.
He believed that when a person felt angry or sad it was because certain internal valves opened and released fluids such as bile.
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3) In the English language, there are more than 400 words assigned to emotions and feelings.
4) A recent study suggested a strong correlation between the use of certain clothing items and emotional states.
For example, it was revealed that women who are depressed or sad are more likely to wear baggy tops.
5) Some researchers say that technology, particularly social media, fosters an emotional disconnect instead of emotionally connecting with other people.
6) Emotional abuse is similar to brainwashing.
It tries to undermine a person's self-confidence, self-esteem and self-concept. Emotional abuse can take many forms, including using financial power to control, threaten to leave the other person, demean, belittle, continually criticize, insult, or yell.
7) Historically, psychologists have disagreed as to whether emotions arise before an action, occur at the same time as an action, or are a response to a person's behavior.
8) Charles Darwin believed that emotions were beneficial for evolution because they improve the chances of survival.
For example, the brain uses the emotion of fear to keep us away from a dangerous animal or the emotion of disgust to keep us away from a bad food.
9) In a 1980 study by Robert Plutchik eight primary innate emotions were proposed: joy, acceptance, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger and anticipation.
Plutchik suggested that complex emotions like guilt and love are derived from combinations of primary emotions.
10) Studies show that if people adjust their facial expression to reflect an emotion, they actually begin to feel that emotion.
11) Emotions are contagious.
Negative or unpleasant emotions are more contagious than neutral or positive emotions.
12) Only human beings express the emotion of amazement with their mouths open.
However, it seems that there are more similarities than differences in the way that animals, especially primates and humans express such basic emotions as anger, fear, happiness and sadness. In fact, since animals and humans express the same kind of emotions, Charles Darwin believed that the emotional difference between animals and humans is largely one of complexity and not one of kind.
13) Studies show that men and women experience the same amount of emotions, but women tend to show more.
14) Many psychologists consider that instinct and emotion are alike in that they are both automatic.
For example, fear is both an emotion and an instinct. However, while instincts are immediate, irrational, and innate, emotions have the potential to be more rational and part of a complex feedback system that links biology, behavior, and cognition.
15) Although researchers haven't found any culture in which people spontaneously smile when upset or frown when they're happy, they have found some oddities.
For example, Japanese people have a harder time discerning anger on a face and tend to mask their facial expressions from unpleasant feelings.
16) Of all the facial expressions, the smile can be the most deceptive.
There are about 18 different types of smiles, including polite, cruel, fake, modest, and so on. But only one reflects true happiness; This is known as the Duchenne smile, after the French neurologist who determined this phenomenon, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne.
17) Researchers point out that the emotion most associated with fear is interest.
Some psychologists suggest that fear has two invisible faces. One, the desire to flee, and second, the desire to investigate.
18) Plato described emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in opposite directions.
However, the neurologist Antonio Damasio argues that reasoning depends on emotion and is not in opposition to emotion.
19) BOTOX injections can diminish the signs of aging, but they do so at the cost of making the facial expression more unemotional.
Paradoxically, people who express fewer emotions are less attractive to others.
20) A human being can have more than 10.000 facial expressions to express a wide variety of subtle emotions.
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