Top Highlights

• Emotional granularity, in terms of this view, must be about accurately reading your internal emotional states. Someone who distinguished among different feelings using words like “joy,” “sadness,” “fear,” “disgust,” “excitement,” and “awe” must be detecting physical cues or reactions for each emotion and interpreting them correctly.
• The “fingerprint” of an emotion is likewise assumed to be similar enough from one instance to the next, and in one person to the next, regardless of age, sex, personality, or culture.
• population thinking,
• fear in the brain is an instructive example because for many years, scientists have considered it a textbook case of localizing emotion to a single brain area—namely, the amygdala,
• combinations of different neurons can create instances of fear. Neuroscientists call this principle degeneracy.