How many Emotions Do Humans Have?

I cannot find a definitive answer

Brain scanner can tell what emotions you are feeling when your mind wanders
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/mind-wanders-fmri-scanning/

Knowing exactly how many would be useful for completing an in depth study into human emotions.

Then linking that information to the chemicals that cause them.

if I can just get the force of determination to configure the mind tools to do what’s needed i’m half-happy. In practice it feels like a composite* of whatever, sometimes it requires a fury of sorts to summon and maintain the effort required.

*just in the minute or so I wrote this it was quite an interesting effort, because i’ve got three thiings on the go, and a few hundred things i’m thinking about.

CrazyNeutrino said:

Then linking that information to the chemicals that cause them.

https://youtu.be/w3KBEq95N5U?t=2377

CrazyNeutrino said:

How many Emotions Do Humans Have?

A myriad.

myriad
noun
1.
a countless or extremely great number of people or things.
“myriads of insects danced around the light above my head”
synonyms: multitude, a large/great number/quantity, a lot, scores, quantities, mass, crowd, throng, host, droves, horde, army, legion, sea, swarm; More
2.
(chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand.
“the army was organized on a decimal system, up to divisions of 10,000 or myriads”
adjective
1.
countless or extremely great in number.
“he gazed at the myriad lights of the city”

Woodie said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

How many Emotions Do Humans Have?

A myriad.

myriad
noun
1.
a countless or extremely great number of people or things.
“myriads of insects danced around the light above my head”
synonyms: multitude, a large/great number/quantity, a lot, scores, quantities, mass, crowd, throng, host, droves, horde, army, legion, sea, swarm; More
2.
(chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand.
“the army was organized on a decimal system, up to divisions of 10,000 or myriads”
adjective
1.
countless or extremely great in number.
“he gazed at the myriad lights of the city”

Indeed, humans have all known emotions.

Bubblecar said:

Woodie said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

How many Emotions Do Humans Have?

A myriad.

myriad
noun
1.
a countless or extremely great number of people or things.
“myriads of insects danced around the light above my head”
synonyms: multitude, a large/great number/quantity, a lot, scores, quantities, mass, crowd, throng, host, droves, horde, army, legion, sea, swarm; More
2.
(chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand.
“the army was organized on a decimal system, up to divisions of 10,000 or myriads”
adjective
1.
countless or extremely great in number.
“he gazed at the myriad lights of the city”

Indeed, humans have all known emotions.

Only because they are the only ones he/she knows. A dog also thinks it knows all known emotions, but obviously does not otherwise it would be human. In other words you only know the known.

> A dog also thinks it knows all known emotions

I doubt that dogs worry themselves with these contemplations.

Bubblecar said:

> A dog also thinks it knows all known emotions

I doubt that dogs worry themselves with these contemplations.

As do most people.

Bubblecar said:

> A dog also thinks it knows all known emotions

I doubt that dogs worry themselves with these contemplations.

Some dogs are worrying about why they ate their bed. Again.

kii said:

Bubblecar said:

> A dog also thinks it knows all known emotions

I doubt that dogs worry themselves with these contemplations.

Some dogs are worrying about why they ate their bed. Again.

Oh dear. I thought her new one was supposed to be inedible.

Bubblecar said:

kii said:

Bubblecar said:

> A dog also thinks it knows all known emotions

I doubt that dogs worry themselves with these contemplations.

Some dogs are worrying about why they ate their bed. Again.

Oh dear. I thought her new one was supposed to be inedible.

Who said she swallowed?

kii said:

Bubblecar said:

> A dog also thinks it knows all known emotions

I doubt that dogs worry themselves with these contemplations.

Some dogs are worrying about why they ate their bed. Again.

She is bored, take her for walks.

This chart lists 114 emotions
imgur emotion chart

Wikipedia mentions 68 emotions
Emotion

2

dv said:

2

I’m going for 1.

It’s multi-dimensional though.

dv said:

2

You are speaking as a male with a left and right testicle?

Let’s put it this way:

Can we test how many emotions a human has?

If so, how? And then, do that test.

If not, then the question is worthless.

dv said:

Let’s put it this way:

Can we test how many emotions a human has?

If so, how? And then, do that test.

If not, then the question is worthless.

:) or the answer is, as many as you can think of if you could remember to actually record them?

dv said:

Let’s put it this way:

Can we test how many emotions a human has?

If so, how? And then, do that test.

If not, then the question is worthless.

I’m sure there are people approaching the subject scientifically somewhere, and making an effort to distinguish between different emotional responses. And trying to trace them to the various chemical processes and external stimuli involved.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

Let’s put it this way:

Can we test how many emotions a human has?

If so, how? And then, do that test.

If not, then the question is worthless.

I’m sure there are people approaching the subject scientifically somewhere, and making an effort to distinguish between different emotional responses. And trying to trace them to the various chemical processes and external stimuli involved.

I’m sure there are too.

At least 7

it could be all about sensory perception.

party_pants said:

At least 7

42

roughbarked said:

it could be all about sensory perception.

environment > sensory perception > process > reaction > environment

something like that

CrazyNeutrino said:

party_pants said:

At least 7

42

42 is counted in “at least 7”.

I have the whole gamut of human emotions, all the way from A to B.

ChrispenEvan said:

I have the whole gamut of human emotions, all the way from A to B.

From Emotions Wikipedia

Affection
Anger
Angst
Anguish
Annoyance
Anticipation
Anxiety
Apathy
Arousal
Awe
Boredom
Confidence
Contempt
Contentment
Courage
Curiosity
Depression
Desire
Despair
Disappointment
Disgust
Distrust
Ecstasy
Embarrassment
Empathy
Envy
Euphoria
Fear
Frustration
Gratitude
Grief
Guilt
Happiness
Hatred
Hope
Horror
Hostility
Humiliation
Hysteria
Interest
Jealousy
Joy
Loneliness
Love
Lust
Outrage
Panic
Passion
Pity
Pleasure
Pride
Rage
Regret
Remorse
Resentment
Sadness
Saudade
Schadenfreude
Self-confidence
Shame
Shock
Shyness
Sorrow
Suffering
Surprise
Trust
Wonder
Worry

personally i think it achieves nothing to box emotions like this. rarely are emotions just one, but usually a mixture.

ChrispenEvan said:

personally i think it achieves nothing to box emotions like this. rarely are emotions just one, but usually a mixture.

Yes, a scientific approach wouldn’t be concerned with preserving the traditional names, but linking tem with what’s actually going on.

Bubblecar said:

ChrispenEvan said:

personally i think it achieves nothing to box emotions like this. rarely are emotions just one, but usually a mixture.

Yes, a scientific approach wouldn’t be concerned with preserving the traditional names, but linking tem with what’s actually going on.

tem = them :)

ChrispenEvan said:

personally i think it achieves nothing to box emotions like this. rarely are emotions just one, but usually a mixture.

it achieves a lot for science

yes emotions can intermingle and have scales

emotions change all the time, over 24 hours each person experiences a range of emotions

ChrispenEvan said:

personally i think it achieves nothing to box emotions like this. rarely are emotions just one, but usually a mixture.

I agree.

say eventually when all emotions are understood

fMRI scans plot areas in the brain for each emotion and cross-emotions

then when emotions to chemical relationships are understood

a smart device would detect certain chemicals in the body which generate specific emotions and create an emotion chart across a person’s whole day

such information would be handy to carers, doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists to treat people with depression

CrazyNeutrino said:

say eventually when all emotions are understood

fMRI scans plot areas in the brain for each emotion and cross-emotions

then when emotions to chemical relationships are understood

a smart device would detect certain chemicals in the body which generate specific emotions and create an emotion chart across a person’s whole day

such information would be handy to carers, doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists to treat people with depression

Military uses could be found

A soldier experiencing intense fear could be medicated on the fly with counter-chemicals
this would be a voluntary tool the soldier could choose to use on the field

>A soldier experiencing intense fear could be medicated on the fly with counter-chemicals
this would be a voluntary tool the soldier could choose to use on the field

I wonder if the fantasy superhuman, the fantasy supersoldier, the _chemically-enhanced supersoldier_* is entirely an ideological thing, you know from watching Rambo or whatever. I doubt it could be entirely ideological, though’s keenly absorbed and amplified.

*it’s interesting that the neuro-chem’-centric model of the mind seems to be amongst it. There’s this terrritory of chemical enhancement, which I can’t help thinking promotes drug use (medicines, and not).

asterix and obelix, roger ramjet, popeye, goofy

corrupted us all :)

transition said:

asterix and obelix, roger ramjet, popeye, goofy

Sounds like a weird version of Inside Out

CrazyNeutrino said:

From Emotions Wikipedia

…
Frustration
Gratitude
Grief
Guilt
…

They missed “Glee”.

The web thesaurus has

affecting exciting heated hysterical impassioned moving nervous passionate poignant sensitive sentimental spontaneous touching ardent disturbed ecstatic emotive enthusiastic excitable falling_apart fanatical feeling fervent fervid fickle fiery heartwarming histrionic hot-blooded impetuous impulsive irrational overwrought pathetic responsive roused sentient stirred stirring susceptible tear-jerking temperamental tender thrilling warm zealous

the gloating glee’d be covered by that german word schadenfreude or whatever, but’s not the only glee i’d expect

CrazyNeutrino said:

roughbarked said:

it could be all about sensory perception.

environment > sensory perception > process > reaction > environment

something like that

you could spin it around

internal environment (that needs maintaining – homeostasis) > reaction potentials > process (including higher functions) > sense perceptions > input/output to external environment.

(the above not to be taken too literally, my only point being it probably works both ways)

how exactly the term environment came to mean that external only or mostly i’ve never quite fully grasped. How ever it did, whatever were responsible for that’s quite nasty IMO.