people with high emotional granularity can easily differentiate between feeling excited, delighted, happy, pleased people with lower emotional granularity clump all of these feelings under a single label, e.g. happiness
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Tamara Winter Retweeted Pamela J. Hobart
I’ll stop short of saying everyone should resemble the first descriptor Or Else, but the flattening of all emotions seems bad in an important way, e.g.https://twitter.com/amelapay/status/1157111383743508480?s=20 …
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I'd been thinking about this granularity thing all day, since I saw it! My working hypothesis is that granulating (lol) is a general phenomenon, so if you're going to start appreciating "positive" emotions more subtly, the "negative" ones will start seeming more nuanced too
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That seems good to me now, but I don't know if understanding more varieties of sadness would have always seemed like a valuable undertaking to past-me...
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English sucks horse balls for this task. The Greeks knew the deal.
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The Greeks had 3 different words for love, and, like, 43 for yogurt.
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They had like, 30 Goddamn words for pederasty
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That was my first thought but decided to turn the spice down a bit bc (a) family friendly, (b) serve it up over home plate for you
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Yes, that crass EB will make the joke!
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