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There are certain culturally universal emotions; happiness and sadness are two of them, but joy or misery aren't, and I've never seen this definition of misery
by tedks 10y ago
There are certain culturally universal emotions; happiness and sadness are two of them, but joy or misery aren't, and I've never seen this definition of misery before in the literature. Is this based on your own framework and anecdotes or is there a source for it?
- vinceguidry 10y agoMy own framework. When I outline stuff like this, I try to be careful to situate them on easily-relatable concepts so that people who use different words for the same concepts can work out what I'm trying to convey. Not being a trained scientist, I can't really relate my own experiences to published literature.