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Are you missing an emotion? As in; is there one common emotion in the range of typical human expression that you almost never experience? (h/t

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Yes absolutely
32.2%
To some extent, maybe?
43%
Nope
24.8%

2,473 votesFinal results

9:14 PM · Aug 29, 2020

Geoffrey Miller

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Stage fright. I'm an introverted guy in small groups, but never felt anxiety about public speaking in front of big groups. (This is a surprisingly common pattern among academics.)

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Question is, would you have become an academic anyway if you had terrible stage fright? Seems like a sub-optimal filter for academics...

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Yes. Anxiety. I just really don't feel that one. It took me a while to realize that I didn't get what other people were talking about. But yeah, anxiety is definitely missing in me.

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Joy.

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For those interested, from Wikipedia: Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions

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I suspect I have all of them but lack self awareness. I used to go around saying I was never ‘angry’ - how absurd is that? Turns out it’s because I’m a little bit angry ALL the time.

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I don't feel grief in the sense that other people feel it. While I had had this suspicion from comparing other people's reactions to my grandparents deaths years ago to mine, it became obvious some months ago, when my sister had killed herself. 1/2

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Jealousy. Envy.

@IamRomanWinters

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I feel like I don't feel fear like the typical human

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love. At best, it is lust in my case.