Emotions and Language (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Emotions and Language

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The researchers findings suggest that understanding emotional signals is not based on the words we have in your language to describe emotions. Instead, emotions appear to have evolved as a set of basic human mechanisms.

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Oliver Le Guen/MPI for Psycholinguistics

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