Checking the Fossil Record: The Action Words of Emotions
A blast from the past.
Hi All,
This week, we’re revisiting one of Josh’s posts—The Action Words of Emotions—which explores how the language we use to describe emotions reveals the way we conceptualize and respond to them. Fortunately, if you’re weary of constantly “managing” your emotions, there might be a better way.
The Action Words of Emotions
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In The Adaptive Role of Emotions, I argued that a functional view of emotions might help people deal with them better. Here, I scrutinize that word, ‘deal’—along with related words and phrases—in an attempt to understand what our language says about how we conceptualize emotions. So, this article is about how we