Sadness is one of the cardinal negative emotions. While every human being has experienced sadness, the intensity of their experiences can vary dramatically. Like all emotions, sadness has an evolutionary advantage that has resulted in it being preserved as an essential part of being human.The greatest cause of sadness is loss. The classic example is the loss of a significant relationship. When we lose a loved one, we describe the intense sadness as grief. We know that grief is universal and that grief plays an important role in helping us to mourn the loss of someone we have loved.While the negative impact of depression has an enormous public health consequence, the good news that has evolved over the past two decades is that our treatments for depression are increasingly effective. Given the fact that many depressed individuals fail to seek treatment, reaching out to people who are depressed and would have a high likelihood of responding to treatment should be a major health priority.  

Thoughts of a Modern Man

Charles Darwin was the first modern thinker to formally propose that facial expressions reveal different emotions. In The Expression of the emotions in man and animal he described in detail how people and animals display emotions throught their faces and bodies. He also offered a theory of the evolution of emotional expression.

Duchenne Smile Vs. Nonduchenne Smile

The most recognizable facial expression of emotion is the smile of happiness. Yet not all smiles are created equally. In particular, Duchenne smiles are smiles that pull up the lip corners diagonally and contracts the band of mushcles that circle the eye to create crow's feet and raise the cheeks. This smile expresses true enjoyment. Usually when we smile for social reasons and not genuinely happy, we only use the lips and not the band of mushcles around the eye. This smile is referred to as non-Duchenne smile

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KNOW YOUR HISTORY PEOPLE!!!!!

There are many type of emotions, but do we know where these emotions come from, or who created the names of them? Many of us do not know. In 1972 psychologist Paul Eckman suggested that there are six basic emotions that are universal throughout human cultures. We ALL should know what these six basic emotions are..... right? Fear, disgust, anger, surprise, happiness, and sadness :( . In 1999 psychologist Paul Eckman expanded the list above to include a number of other basic emotions including embarrassment, excitement, contempt, shame, pride, satisfaction, and amusement.

Can we all just get along???

Anger is a emotion that we all have felt at least one time in our lives. For many people, anger is a emotion that is hard to regulate because no matter how hard a person tries to control their anger there is always some signs that are still visible on the outside. Anger causes  physiological, behavioral/expressive, and subjective changes. For example, if you find out some one stole your favorite piece of jewelry, car, phone, etc., you show signs of physiological, behavioral/expressive, and subjective changes. Physiologically your heart rate would start to increase and your adrenaline starts to increase. Anger will cause behavioral/expressive changes, such as frowning face, lowered eyebrows,  and voice changes. The subjective changes will show the difference in how you feel compared to how you will feel if you were happy.

James-Lange Theory !

        In psychology there are many different theories that describes psychology, but I'm going to focus on the James-Lange Theory. The James-Lange theory was created by two psychologist by the name of William James and Carl Lange. This theory clearly states that emotions are caused by our interpretation of bodily actions. According to this theory your emotional reaction depends on how you interpret those reactions physically. For instance , if you were to see a snake you instantly become frighted. This theory explains that you will interpret your own emotions and determine that you are afraid.

We gotta regulate yall to stay sane!!!

People can be considered crazy or bipolar sometime according to society. We unintentionally and often intentionally change our emotions we experience.  This is defined as Emotion regulation.  There are two ways to " handle" our emotions which include reappraisal and expressive suppression. When we do a reappraisal we reevaluate an event so that a different emotion shows up. When we put into action expressive suppression, we deliberately attempt stop the outer appearance of the emotion we are actually feeling.