There Are 27 Different Emotions, New Study Suggests

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Emotion is a communication tool and is culturally determined. The research ought to specify the culture in which the survey was made.

Also, since it is a survey on which participants report which emotion they guess they feel (or which emotion they think they ought to guess to feel, or which emotion they think they ought to feel) then you are only recording normative emotion. Not descriptive emotion. The actual abstract of the research mentions this correctly: "[Here we] analyze reported emotional states" and further on it says "elicit 27 distinct varieties of reported emotional experience". Reported =/= Actually Existing. This research did 0 about the physiological impact of emotions, so how would you justify the reports of individuals as proof of the actual existence of emotions?

Your titel of "There Are 27 Different Emotions" is greatly misleading and disrespecting the research and their authors. It is misrepresenting the research - it is twisting science. It should be "There May Be 27 Different Emotions People Can Identify Within Themselves [within their cultural context]".

Whether there are a defined set of emotions, and whether these are universal or culturally decided, is a whole different debate.

Be careful with your wording. If you say "[emotion] experienced along a gradient" it is not clear if you meant that the emotion within somebody is experienced along a gradient, or if emotion communicated by another is experienced by the receiver along a gradient. Big difference.

Please take care with your writing. I hardly ever read Psychology Today, nonetheless the wording of this article gave me reason for concern, especially since the knowledge of social sciences is 100% linked with wording and words! It only gains value through its careful wording, and if you disregard this care, you end up with literal nonsense.

{sorry for my really bad English}

I have noticed that there is no love or hate there....are they not emotions any more?

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Hi-I enjoyed reading this article. I feel like "Humor" is missing from this list. How does finding something funny fit into this list?