Some interesting Weird Emotion Facts!
Here are some facts about emotions of human beings given below:
1. Ancient Greeks believes that the bad things that plagued mankind were nothing but creatures evolving out of emotions like spite, revenge, envy etc. They believed that it was goddess Pandora who released these creatures for the purpose of tormenting the world.
2. René Descartes from 17th century held the view that emotional apparatus of human body was hydraulic by nature. According to René, whenever valves inside the body opened and released fluids like phlegm and bile, a person would feel sad and angry.
3. Humans are capable of making 10,000 different facial expressions for expressing subtle emotions.
4. People can understand facial expressions faster for others belonging to their own race compared to people from other race.
5. Decreasing aging signs using BOTOX injections make the face unemotional and less animated. Interestingly, people with less animated faces are less attractive.
6. Neuroscientists differentiate between ‘feeling’ and ‘emotion’. Emotions, they say, are auto-programmed responses of brain towards certain stimuli whereas feelings are conscious impressions of the responses.
7. Any emotion experienced by us actually has 3 components. The first one is a psychological change such as a spike in heart rate, followed by a tendency of either staying with or running away from the source that is generating the emotion and eventually the subject experience such as feeling sad, happy or angry.
8. A major key music is a happy music while a minor key music is a sad music. No wonder, music has always been used to evoke different emotions in people.
9. Research conducted on children and adolescents between the age group 7 and 17 has proved that those with better ability to recognize facial expressions become better leaders and attain higher social status.
10. There are 18 different types of smile. This makes smile the most deceptive all facial expressions. Some variants of smile include self-effacing smile, false smile, cruel smile, polite smile and so on. It was French neurologist named Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne who figured out that only one out of this 18 variants of smile represents genuine happiness. The smile is known as Duchenne smile in honor of Guillaume.
11. Different studies have revealed that women and men both experience the same level of emotion but women have a tendency of showing it more.
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