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HOW DO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS EXPRESS EMOTION?

By: Skye at Writerology

Emotion is a core part of being human. We experience it every day and we pump our stories full of it.

But what different emotions are there, are they the same within cultures and between them, and what biases might influence your emotional recognition?

PRIMORDIAL EMOTIONS

Hunger, thirst, pain—though we might not immediately think of these as emotions in the traditional sense, they’re classed as such in psychology. They’re hard-wired into us and let us know when something isn’t right in our bodies.

BASIC EMOTIONS

One step up from primordial emotions, there are the basic emotions. These are assumed to be universal across humans; when you see a face expressing one of the six basic emotions, you should recognise it, no matter where in the world you’re from. They include:

• Anger
• Fear
• Disgust
• Surprise
• Happiness
• Sadness

SELF-CONSCIOUS EMOTIONS

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Read the full article HERE!

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Happy writing and running, Kathy