20 interesting facts about emotions

It is difficult to argue that left at least something unknown about the feelings that pervade our every day, our dreams and dreams. But we will try to surprise you by presenting 20 interesting facts about human emotions.

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emotions Works transparently for us: they trigger cognitive processes (recognition and reasoning), physical sensations, influence behavior.

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Emotions - the most powerful motivator. They drive our desire to survive to reproduce, communicate and behave in accordance with moral standing.

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Men experience the same emotions as women. Simply we are taught to express feelings in different ways.

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There are more than a hundred emotions. And it is only those of which we know.

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Seven basic emotions - it's anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, delight and happiness.

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Happiness - the conflicting emotions. Why? Because it can mean many things: joy, emotion, euphoria ...

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In order to express the full range of emotions, nature has awarded us 43 muscles responsible for facial expressions.

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Expressions may last from fractions of seconds to several minutes. Negative emotions we experience longer than positive.

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Mood - something longer than an emotion. We can stay there from several minutes to several days. In addition, it affects how you feel emotions. For example, if you are not in the spirit of anger will make your blood boil is much stronger than usual.

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is an expression of "guts feeling" in the Russian language. An ulterior motive. Emotions have an effect on the autonomic nervous system that controls basic bodily functions such as digestion, blood circulation, breathing and sexual desire.

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Emotions are universal. Facial expressions of people in Russia and Zimbabwe are not different, provided that people are experiencing the same emotions. But triggers feelings, of course, different.

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Love - it is not an emotion. This state, during which you can experience a variety of feelings: joy, sadness, depression, anger ...

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You can cultivate and change their own emotions. For this you need to say thank you to the prefrontal cortex. You can forget about the emotions, to interpret it in their own way, or even change its value for themselves, so - and the reaction to the feeling.

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consciousness - is the key to everything. The sooner you identify the emotion, the more ways to deal with it, you will. To understand how your mind, try to turn to meditation.

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If you long to simulate a particular emotion such as disgust or anger, you will embrace these feelings really.

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Emotional intelligence more important than the mind. According to statistics, your financial well-being by 85% depends on your leadership skills, ability to communicate and negotiate. And only 15% - on learning.

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Your thoughts about justice, commitment, strength, kindness and mutual expressed in such emotions as compassion, gratitude, embarrassment and awe. These feelings develop in man for thousands of years. So morality is literally embodied in ourselves.

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Only 1% of people are able to completely hide emotions from others.

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10% of people do not know exactly how they feel. This is called alexithymia. Because of this dysfunction person is not able to describe their emotions words, to distinguish one sense from another and understand the mood of others.

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People who are addicted to Botox injections, you still may experience emotions. This killer paralyzes some wrinkles facial musclesBut because sometimes it seems that the person in front of you does not feel anything at all. But this is not true. But a person with alexithymia Botox - it's a disaster.