CellWell record HH-42587
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure
Jackson JC; Watts J; Henry TR; List JM; Forkel R; Mucha PJ; Greenhill SJ; Gray RD; Lindquist KA
Science (New York, N.Y.) ยท 2019
In plain language
Mapping emotion words across 2,474 languages found the meaning of terms like anger and fear varies with geography, while every language family sorted emotions along the same two axes of pleasantness and activation.
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