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Emotional granularity

A long read

When you just feel "bad"

Some days you just feel "bad." The word covers a lot. Under one "bad" can hide many different feelings. You might be angry. Or scared. Or tired. Or lonely. Those feel different in the body. But "bad" blurs them together.

Sources

  • Matthew Lieberman, UCLA, 2007
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made (2017)
  • Marc Brackett, Permission to Feel (2019)
  • Kashdan, Ferssizidis, Collins & Muraven, Psychological Science, 2010