The recent experience of parents dropping off their kids at college showcases a profound emotional complexity, where pride and sadness coexist, challenging traditional views on emotions.
Psychology researchers tend to categorize emotions strictly as positive or negative, but this fails to acknowledge the genuine mixed emotions that individuals often experience in complex situations.
As I study mixed emotions in the brain, I find that it's essential to consider if we experience truly simultaneous feelings, or just alternate between them.
Emotions are not just fleeting experiences; they are critically linked to survival, influencing our decisions to either approach or avoid certain situations, shaped by evolutionary factors.
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