{"id":8802,"date":"2021-02-15T03:03:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/central.digitalschools.com.au\/?p=8802"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:58:48","slug":"the-end-of-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandinnorthps.vic.edu.au\/upschool\/guest-contributors\/the-end-of-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The End of Emotions<\/span><\/h1>

Have you ever wondered what emotions are and how they are made?.\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0I have. I researched this article because I wasn\u2019t sure how I feel, what I think, and how to define my changing states.<\/span>\u00a0It was a week or so ago where I sat on my couch baffled at my state of nonchalance. I was unbothered \u2013 not flat, just present, still and curious. What do I feel? What should I think? , and where to find the answers?.<\/span><\/p>

Where are my emotions, I wondered?. What are emotions, and how do we know which ones to acknowledge?. I<\/span>\u00a0searched high and low for concrete answers to my plaguing questions, and still, it seems a little unclear as to what goes where.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Theory of Emotions<\/span><\/h2>

Theorists suggest that emotions \u2013 the ones that are said to be universal are a part of the survival package we get handed from birth. Experts say we have five to seven universal emotions, shared by man, woman, child and beast and that everyone understands these to be the same.<\/span><\/p>

According to Dr Paul Ekman, these fundamental emotions are; Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, Contempt and Surprise. Dr Paul Ekman pioneered micro-expressions and mapped the 43 facial muscles used in emotional expression. Dr Ekman has influenced politics, governments and popular culture through his research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Confident in his work the Dalai Lama commissioned Dr Paul Ekman and his daughter Dr Eve Ekman in a brand new interactive virtual platform called \u2018The Atlas of Emotions\u2019, where you can explore the complex dimension of feelings and their intensity.<\/strong><\/p>

http:\/\/atlasofemotions.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

Paul Ekman<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is a well-known psychologist and co-discoverer of\u00a0<\/em>micro-expressions<\/em><\/a>. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine in 2009. He has worked with many government agencies, domestic and abroad. Dr Ekman has compiled over 50 years of his research to create comprehensive\u00a0<\/em>training tools<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to read those around you…<\/em>\u00a0(<\/span>https:\/\/www.paulekman.com\/blog\/atlas-of-emotions\/<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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And Then, There Was Lisa<\/span><\/h2>

Experts say emotions are energy- in-motion \u2013 that emotions cause us to take actions and that each emotion has its unique physiological thumbprint. Research says that there are 35,000 different emotions, and each is unique. If we embody emotions and so many, how would we cope with so many physiological changes?.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

I was bothered. Imagine if there are 35,000 different available emotions, how many variable chemical cocktails, muscle movements, and behaviours would we make all day?.<\/span><\/p>

It also bothered me, that I could not find a reliable source to where all these emotions arise, how we make them or even make sense of them. The information I had so far accessed seemed very wishy-washy and hard to make sense. Still, the answer remained, what is an emotion? Where do they come from?, and are the ones I have real or just made up?.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

And then I came across Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett, and bit by bit the elusive construct of metaphor and allegory started to make sense. In her research, Dr Barrett annihilates claims made by contemporaries in the field of emotional sciences and psychology by stating that most of the published works rely on unsubstantiated evidence and bogus claims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a distinguished university professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on affective science. She is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell, she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review.\u00a0<\/span>Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>

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