Psychologists often categorize emotions strictly into positive or negative, neglecting the complexities of mixed emotions—a common experience for parents sending their children off to college.
While most emotions can be understood as either approach or avoidance mechanisms, mixed emotions present a challenge. How do we reconcile feelings of pride and sadness at significant life transitions?
This duality of emotion—feeling both happiness for a child's independence and sadness over goodbye—leads to questions about how these conflicting feelings coexist in our emotional experiences.
As a neuroscientist, my research explores whether people can truly experience emotions as both positive and negative simultaneously or if they merely oscillate between these feelings.
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