Scientists discover there are 27 DIFFERENT emotions

Scientists have discovered that the range of emotions humans experience is much wider than previously thought. While it was originally thought we feel just six emotions, researchers at UC Berkeley found 27 distinct human emotions and have displayed them on an interactive map. In addition to happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and, disgust, they also determined confusion, romance, nostalgia, sexual desire, and others to be distinct emotions. The emotion map the researchers created: In addition to happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and, disgust, they also determined confusion, romance, nostalgia, sexual desire, and others to be distinct emotions. 'We wanted to shed light on the full palette of emotions that color our inner world,' lead author Alan Cowen said of the study, which was published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.