Overheard: Feelings are everywhere; be gentle.
“I lost my mood ring, so now I am not sure how I feel!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Mood rings were once popular novelty items. Mood rings purportedly change color with changes in emotions. Each color would indicate a different mood of a wearer, such as happy, sad, angry, or calm.
“Sadness and gladness succeed each other.” -Author Unknown
Colors can profoundly affect emotional responses. While not everyone experiences the same emotion in response to a particular color, most people find reds and oranges cheering, and blues and purples restful. In contrast, gray, brown, black, and white tend to be emotionally dulling. In fact, studies reveal that children playing in an orange room were friendlier, more alert, more creative, and less irritable than children in playrooms painted white, brown, and black.
“The fastest way to lift your spirits is to lift someone else’s.” -Author Unknown
Researchers note that the emotion most associated with fear is interest. Some psychologists have gone so far as to suggest that fear has two invisible faces: one, a wish to flee and, second, a wish to investigate.
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
Only humans are known to express the emotion of astonishment with mouths agape, or wide open. However, there may be more similarities than differences in the way animals, especially primates including humans, express emotions such as anger, fear, happiness, and sadness. Because animals and humans are capable of expressing similar kinds of emotions, some people believe the difference in emotional displays between humans and other animals is largely one of physical differences, and not differences in the kind of emotions experienced. In other words, humans as well as other animals are all believed to have similar emotions, feelings, and moods, but may express them in different ways.
“I’m sad, hurt, angry, mad, and disappointed. But you know what? I’ll put on a smile and move on. It will hurt, but I will survive.” -Author Unknown
Researchers note that when concealing a strong emotion, people tend to let out ‘micro-expressions,’ or sudden displays of emotion, very briefly, often in as little as one-24th of a second, often unknown even to themselves.
Overheard: I laughed until I cried . . . and then I cried until I laughed . . . it has been an emotional day.
Any emotion has three components: 1. Physiological changes, as for example, acceleration of heart rate, 2. Behavioral response, such as a tendency to escape from or stay in contact with whatever is causing the emotion, and 3. A subjective experience, such as feeling angry, happy, or sad.
“Don’t make decisions when you’re angry. Don’t make promises when you’re happy.” -Author Unknown
Facial expressions can control emotion. Studies show that if people adjust their facial expression to reflect an emotion, they actually begin to feel that emotion.
“I lost my mood ring, so now I am not sure how I feel!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Mood rings were once popular novelty items. Mood rings purportedly change color with changes in emotions. Each color would indicate a different mood of a wearer, such as happy, sad, angry, or calm.
“Sadness and gladness succeed each other.” -Author Unknown
Colors can profoundly affect emotional responses. While not everyone experiences the same emotion in response to a particular color, most people find reds and oranges cheering, and blues and purples restful. In contrast, gray, brown, black, and white tend to be emotionally dulling. In fact, studies reveal that children playing in an orange room were friendlier, more alert, more creative, and less irritable than children in playrooms painted white, brown, and black.
“The fastest way to lift your spirits is to lift someone else’s.” -Author Unknown
Researchers note that the emotion most associated with fear is interest. Some psychologists have gone so far as to suggest that fear has two invisible faces: one, a wish to flee and, second, a wish to investigate.
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
Only humans are known to express the emotion of astonishment with mouths agape, or wide open. However, there may be more similarities than differences in the way animals, especially primates including humans, express emotions such as anger, fear, happiness, and sadness. Because animals and humans are capable of expressing similar kinds of emotions, some people believe the difference in emotional displays between humans and other animals is largely one of physical differences, and not differences in the kind of emotions experienced. In other words, humans as well as other animals are all believed to have similar emotions, feelings, and moods, but may express them in different ways.
“I’m sad, hurt, angry, mad, and disappointed. But you know what? I’ll put on a smile and move on. It will hurt, but I will survive.” -Author Unknown
Researchers note that when concealing a strong emotion, people tend to let out ‘micro-expressions,’ or sudden displays of emotion, very briefly, often in as little as one-24th of a second, often unknown even to themselves.
Overheard: I laughed until I cried . . . and then I cried until I laughed . . . it has been an emotional day.
Any emotion has three components: 1. Physiological changes, as for example, acceleration of heart rate, 2. Behavioral response, such as a tendency to escape from or stay in contact with whatever is causing the emotion, and 3. A subjective experience, such as feeling angry, happy, or sad.
“Don’t make decisions when you’re angry. Don’t make promises when you’re happy.” -Author Unknown
Facial expressions can control emotion. Studies show that if people adjust their facial expression to reflect an emotion, they actually begin to feel that emotion.
Some evidence suggests that when we are feeling down, we can turn our frown upside down to make a smile, and our mood will start to improve. Not only can our emotions, moods, and feelings make our faces show certain expressions, but also, by making our faces show certain expressions, we can make ourselves feel the associated emotions, moods, and feelings.
“You can make yourself happy or miserable - it’s the same amount of effort.” -Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012)
The English word ‘emotion’ is derived from the Latin word ‘emovere’ meaning ‘to move out, remove, or agitate,’ as it is composed of the prefix ‘ex-’ meaning ‘out’ and root word ‘movere’ meaning ‘to move.’
“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.” -Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)
Clothing both affects and reflects emotional states. A recent study suggests a strong correlation between wearing certain clothes and emotional states. For example, it revealed that women who are depressed or sad are more likely to wear baggy tops, sweatshirts, or jeans. Women who had more positive emotions were more likely to wear a favorite dress or jewelry and generally look nicer.
“So far as other people are concerned, you are your behavior. So far as you are concerned, you are your feelings.” -Peter Honey
In the English language, there are more than 400 words assigned to emotions and sentiments.
“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))
Plato described emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in opposite directions. However, modern neurologist Antonio Damasio argues that reasoning depends on emotion and is not in opposition to emotion.
“Whenever you feel sad, just remember that somewhere in this world, there’s a person pulling on a door that reads, ‘Push.’” -Author Unknown
The definition of emoticon as given at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emoticon is, ‘a group of keyboard characters (such as :-)) that typically represents a facial expression or suggests an attitude or emotion and that is used especially in computerized communications (such as e-mail).’
“You can make yourself happy or miserable - it’s the same amount of effort.” -Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012)
The English word ‘emotion’ is derived from the Latin word ‘emovere’ meaning ‘to move out, remove, or agitate,’ as it is composed of the prefix ‘ex-’ meaning ‘out’ and root word ‘movere’ meaning ‘to move.’
“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.” -Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)
Clothing both affects and reflects emotional states. A recent study suggests a strong correlation between wearing certain clothes and emotional states. For example, it revealed that women who are depressed or sad are more likely to wear baggy tops, sweatshirts, or jeans. Women who had more positive emotions were more likely to wear a favorite dress or jewelry and generally look nicer.
“So far as other people are concerned, you are your behavior. So far as you are concerned, you are your feelings.” -Peter Honey
In the English language, there are more than 400 words assigned to emotions and sentiments.
“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))
Plato described emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in opposite directions. However, modern neurologist Antonio Damasio argues that reasoning depends on emotion and is not in opposition to emotion.
“Whenever you feel sad, just remember that somewhere in this world, there’s a person pulling on a door that reads, ‘Push.’” -Author Unknown
The definition of emoticon as given at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emoticon is, ‘a group of keyboard characters (such as :-)) that typically represents a facial expression or suggests an attitude or emotion and that is used especially in computerized communications (such as e-mail).’
Scott Fahlman, at the time a Professor of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is credited with creating the first digital smiley face ‘emoticon’ on 19 September 1982. His homepage is http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/.
“It was ten minutes of my life. I expected my note might amuse a few of my friends, and that would be the end of it.” -Scott Fahlman (Scott Elliott Fahlman (born 1948)), commenting on his creation of the first digital smiley face emoticon, or :-)
Emoticons = Emotions + Icons. Shown are just a few of the many keyboard emoticons people have devised.
:) happy
:-) happy
:-)) very happy
:-):-) laughing loudly
:’-) crying for joy
:D laughing
:-D laughing
;-) winking
;-)=) big toothy grin
*-<|:o) feeling celebratory
:”> blushing
(-: left-facing smiley
^5 high five
{{ }} hug (put person’s name or initials inside the brackets)
8-] in love
: ( sad
:-( sad or frowning
:-(( very sad
:’-( weeping
:-[ pouting
=:-O scared
:-@ screaming or frustrated yelling
:-( ) shouting very loud
:-(0) yelling
:-V shouting
~ :-( steaming mad
> :-( mad
>:-< angry
:-o shocked
Studies show that men and women experience the same amount of emotion, but women tend to show emotions more than men do.
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Studies show that mothers are less tolerant of crying in boys than in girls, suggesting that the way emotions are expressed by adults are instilled by mothers during infancy.
“It was ten minutes of my life. I expected my note might amuse a few of my friends, and that would be the end of it.” -Scott Fahlman (Scott Elliott Fahlman (born 1948)), commenting on his creation of the first digital smiley face emoticon, or :-)
Emoticons = Emotions + Icons. Shown are just a few of the many keyboard emoticons people have devised.
:) happy
:-) happy
:-)) very happy
:-):-) laughing loudly
:’-) crying for joy
:D laughing
:-D laughing
;-) winking
;-)=) big toothy grin
*-<|:o) feeling celebratory
:”> blushing
(-: left-facing smiley
^5 high five
{{ }} hug (put person’s name or initials inside the brackets)
8-] in love
: ( sad
:-( sad or frowning
:-(( very sad
:’-( weeping
:-[ pouting
=:-O scared
:-@ screaming or frustrated yelling
:-( ) shouting very loud
:-(0) yelling
:-V shouting
~ :-( steaming mad
> :-( mad
>:-< angry
:-o shocked
Studies show that men and women experience the same amount of emotion, but women tend to show emotions more than men do.
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Studies show that mothers are less tolerant of crying in boys than in girls, suggesting that the way emotions are expressed by adults are instilled by mothers during infancy.
Emojis originated in the late 1990’s with NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese communications company. The word emoji is a contraction of ‘e’ and ‘moji,’ which translates roughly as ‘pictograph.’ Unlike emoticons, emojis are actual pictures, varying from faces to dancing figures to common objects to animals to plants. www.Emojipedia.org can help you find specific emojis to symbolize or communicate a message or feeling.
“Emoticons and emojis are symbols representing human facial expressions, but no mere symbol can ever express the real you and how you really feel!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Some researchers believe that technologies, particularly social networking websites, are being used to manipulate people emotionally and are creating emotional disconnections and conflict, rather than enabling emotional connections and understanding between people. Let us not fight among ourselves to benefit unseen media manipulators, but instead, let us disengage ourselves from social networking websites, go outside to experience the real world, and meet face to face with others.
“When I am sad, I sing, and then the world is sad with me.” -Author Unknown
Body language often reveals emotion. For example, a person standing with his or her hands on the hips, with elbows turned outward, is an example of a territorial display. Someone with their hands folded and their thumbs popped up indicates that he or she has something positive to say. Touching the nose indicates someone is hiding something. According to a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and specialist in nonverbal communication, ‘. . . feet provide the strongest body language signals.’”
“Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.” -Samuel Adams (1722 - 1803)
Several scientists claim that there is always some emotion occurring in the body, but the emotion is too slight for us to notice or to affect what we do.
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
A 1980 study by Robert Plutchik proposed eight primary innate emotions: joy, acceptance, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. He suggests that complex emotions such as guilt and love are combinations of primary emotions.
“We are injured and hurt emotionally, not so much by other people or what they say and don’t say, but by our own attitude and our own response.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
Many psychologists consider instinct and emotion similar in that both are 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 linking biology, behavior, and cognition.
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days you feel good.” -Jerry West
Most scientists believe that basic emotions are innate rather than learned. For example, people who are born blind and have never seen faces still display the typical facial expressions of the basic emotions.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou (Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
Using its website www.WeFeelFine.org, Stanford University analyzed about 13 million emotions that have been recorded on the web since 2005. They found older people are usually happier overall, but for varying reasons. Younger people are happy when they are excited, older people are happier when they are at peace. Additionally, women tend to feel more loved than men, but also feel more guilt. Men often feel happier, yet lonelier. Their findings suggest that the happiest time of day for everyone is lunchtime.
“All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.” -Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842 - 1933)
Of all facial expressions, the smile may be the most deceptive. There are about 18 different basic smiles, including polite, cruel, false, self-effacing, and so on. But only one reflects genuine happiness; this is known as the Duchenne smile, in honor of the French neurologist who determined this phenomenon, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne).
“Fake feeling good . . . You’re going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you’ll actually start feeling happier.” -Jean Bach
Humans are capable of making more than 10,000 facial expressions to express a wide variety of both obvious and subtle emotions.
“Respect people’s feelings. Even if it doesn’t mean anything to you, it could mean everything to them.” -Author Unknown
“Most of the work of the world is done by people who aren’t feeling very well.” -Baron Russell Briggs
“Impatience, anger, and hate come from within. All emotions and feelings come from within, not from outside of oneself. Think about it, before you blame or attribute to others your emotions and feelings, as for example, erroneously saying, ‘That person makes me upset.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Words of malice always spring from envy.” -W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield (1880 - 1946))
Emotional abuse is similar to brainwashing in that it attempts to systematically wear away a person’s self-confidence, self-worth, and self-concept. Emotional abuse can take many forms, including using economic power to control, threatening to leave, degrading, belittling, continually criticizing, name calling, or shouting.
“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880))
Most neuroscientists distinguish between the words ‘emotion’ and ‘feeling,’ using ‘emotion’ to describe the brain’s auto-programmed response to certain stimuli, and ‘feeling’ to describe our conscious impression of that response.
“Feelings are never right or wrong; they just are.” -Author Unknown
This has been an emotional topic . . . because we put a lot of feeling into it . . . okay, maybe not . . . but when time allows, we will put more work into it, and vastly improve the content . . . and that is true . . . much more follows . . . on MFOL!
“Emoticons and emojis are symbols representing human facial expressions, but no mere symbol can ever express the real you and how you really feel!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Some researchers believe that technologies, particularly social networking websites, are being used to manipulate people emotionally and are creating emotional disconnections and conflict, rather than enabling emotional connections and understanding between people. Let us not fight among ourselves to benefit unseen media manipulators, but instead, let us disengage ourselves from social networking websites, go outside to experience the real world, and meet face to face with others.
“When I am sad, I sing, and then the world is sad with me.” -Author Unknown
Body language often reveals emotion. For example, a person standing with his or her hands on the hips, with elbows turned outward, is an example of a territorial display. Someone with their hands folded and their thumbs popped up indicates that he or she has something positive to say. Touching the nose indicates someone is hiding something. According to a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and specialist in nonverbal communication, ‘. . . feet provide the strongest body language signals.’”
“Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.” -Samuel Adams (1722 - 1803)
Several scientists claim that there is always some emotion occurring in the body, but the emotion is too slight for us to notice or to affect what we do.
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
A 1980 study by Robert Plutchik proposed eight primary innate emotions: joy, acceptance, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. He suggests that complex emotions such as guilt and love are combinations of primary emotions.
“We are injured and hurt emotionally, not so much by other people or what they say and don’t say, but by our own attitude and our own response.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
Many psychologists consider instinct and emotion similar in that both are 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 linking biology, behavior, and cognition.
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days you feel good.” -Jerry West
Most scientists believe that basic emotions are innate rather than learned. For example, people who are born blind and have never seen faces still display the typical facial expressions of the basic emotions.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou (Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
Using its website www.WeFeelFine.org, Stanford University analyzed about 13 million emotions that have been recorded on the web since 2005. They found older people are usually happier overall, but for varying reasons. Younger people are happy when they are excited, older people are happier when they are at peace. Additionally, women tend to feel more loved than men, but also feel more guilt. Men often feel happier, yet lonelier. Their findings suggest that the happiest time of day for everyone is lunchtime.
“All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.” -Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842 - 1933)
Of all facial expressions, the smile may be the most deceptive. There are about 18 different basic smiles, including polite, cruel, false, self-effacing, and so on. But only one reflects genuine happiness; this is known as the Duchenne smile, in honor of the French neurologist who determined this phenomenon, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne).
“Fake feeling good . . . You’re going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you’ll actually start feeling happier.” -Jean Bach
Humans are capable of making more than 10,000 facial expressions to express a wide variety of both obvious and subtle emotions.
“Respect people’s feelings. Even if it doesn’t mean anything to you, it could mean everything to them.” -Author Unknown
“Most of the work of the world is done by people who aren’t feeling very well.” -Baron Russell Briggs
“Impatience, anger, and hate come from within. All emotions and feelings come from within, not from outside of oneself. Think about it, before you blame or attribute to others your emotions and feelings, as for example, erroneously saying, ‘That person makes me upset.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Words of malice always spring from envy.” -W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield (1880 - 1946))
Emotional abuse is similar to brainwashing in that it attempts to systematically wear away a person’s self-confidence, self-worth, and self-concept. Emotional abuse can take many forms, including using economic power to control, threatening to leave, degrading, belittling, continually criticizing, name calling, or shouting.
“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880))
Most neuroscientists distinguish between the words ‘emotion’ and ‘feeling,’ using ‘emotion’ to describe the brain’s auto-programmed response to certain stimuli, and ‘feeling’ to describe our conscious impression of that response.
“Feelings are never right or wrong; they just are.” -Author Unknown
This has been an emotional topic . . . because we put a lot of feeling into it . . . okay, maybe not . . . but when time allows, we will put more work into it, and vastly improve the content . . . and that is true . . . much more follows . . . on MFOL!