W e know smart glasses can play podcasts and put an AI assistant in your ear, but what if they knew what you were feeling?

The emotion of surprise is one that people often experience but rarely spend much time pondering. Yet, as one of six basic emotions, it forms a fundamental part of the way we relate to the world.

From reduced inflammation to pain relief to increased levels of dopamine, there are tangible benefits behind emotions like curiosity and amusement. SCIENCE Here’s what science says.

Conventional scientific understanding is that there are six, but new research suggests there may only happy, sad, afraid/surprised, and angry/disgusted.

In a new study, scientists identified 15 additional “compound emotions,” expressed by combining basic emotions. It’s like using blue and red to create purple.

The concept of 'basic’ or ‘primary’ emotions dates back at least to the Book of Rites, a first-century Chinese encyclopaedia that picks out seven ‘feelings of men’: joy, anger, sadness ...

Psychology once assumed that most human emotions fall within the universal categories of happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust. But a new study from Greater Good Science Center ...

Among these facial expressions were the six, long-recognized basic emotions — happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised and disgusted — but also 15 others, which were a combination of these basic ...

When it’s not effective, the message may make you feel sad instead of happy, angry instead of surprised, etc. Five Emotions That Make Us Dig For Our Wallets. Unsurprisingly, ...

Traditionally, research on emotions has been limited to 6 basic categories: happiness, surprise, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust. That could soon change, thanks to 15 new "compound emotions ...