“It’s a long-held idea that if you put a name to a feeling, it can help that feeling become less overwhelming,” she said. It’s a roundup of 154 words from around the world that you could call an exploration of “emotional granularity,” as it provides language for some very specific emotions you likely never knew you had. It’s exactly that - the subjective experience of emotions - that Smith explores in her charming new book, The Book of Human Emotions. “It’s now a physical thing - you can see a location of it in the brain.” And yet, of course, that’s not all an emotion is calling the amygdala the “fear center” of the brain offers little help in understanding what it means to be afraid. “It’s this idea that what we mean by ‘emotion’ has evolved,” Smith tells Science of Us.
This is an intriguing trend for academics like Tiffany Watt Smith, a research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. In 2013, for instance, a team of psychologists published a study in which they claimed that they had found neural correlates for nine very distinct human emotions: anger, disgust, envy, fear, happiness, lust, pride, sadness, and shame. The scientists behind the latest brain-imaging studies say they can now pinpoint with precision where these feelings are located within our heads. In recent years, neuroscience has introduced a new way of thinking about our emotions.
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