Do you feel joy and sadness separately, or do you feel all emotions together? Researchers from USC Dornsife discovered brain activity that appears to confirm that we can feel mixed emotions. “You’re not ping-ponging between negative and positive,” lead author Anthony Vaccaro said. “It’s a very unique, mixed emotion over a long period.” Study participants were asked to watch a short movie that evoked happy and sad feelings. MRI images of their brains showed that mixed emotions were processed differently from the “pure” ones. “Being able to accept positive and negativity at the same time within yourself, is something we think is worth studying,” Associate Professor Jonas Kaplan said. (Study Finds)
Phone Topic: Do you experience mixed emotions, or process one feeling at a time?