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the most negative emotion human beings experience

13 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube video clip (creator: James Laughlin) discussing psychological research on everyday emotions. The speaker summarizes a finding from research conducted about 40 years ago that analyzed transcribed day-to-day conversations and coded expressed emotions, reporting that regret was the most common negative emotion mentioned in daily life.

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About 40 years ago.

It's arguably the most common negative emotion that human beings have. We have, social psychologists figured this out 40 years ago that when you look at people's. Some interesting research where they looked at people's day to day conversations, transcribed them, then coded them for the emotions that were being expressed. The second most common emotion that people talked about in their daily lives was regret. The most common negative emotion was regret.