15 Newly discovered Emotions, and Here's How They Apply to Your Love Life!!

researchers identify 15 new emotions that combine the basic emotions into new mixes of feelings

I think we all always knew humans were more
complex than this, but until recently, scientists
officially identified only six emotion categories
as determined by facial expressions: happy, sad,
fearful, angry, surprised, and disgusted. But in
a new study, researchers have identified 15 new
"compound emotions" that combine the basic
emotions into new mixes of feelings.

In addition to emotions like "hatred" and
"awed, most of the new emotions are
combinations of the originally six. Here are the
compounds, how I envision each applying in
your love life and I would use to convey the emotion if I were texting my BFF. Science, you guys!

how the newly discovered emotions apply to your love life

Happily disgusted:

Applicable Scenario: When your boyfriend
suggests a weird thing you never want to try in
bed, but you realize it means he's comfortable
enough with you to ask.

Happily surprised:

Applicable scenario: When the Match.com date
you agreed to with reservations turns out to be
cuter and funnier in person.

Sadly fearful:

Applicable scenario: When you are about to
hack into your boyfriend's Gmail because you
suspect his relationship with that new girl in
the office is not so platonic.

Sadly angry:

Applicable scenario: When you were right about
the above.

Sadly surprised:

Applicable scenario: When you get ghosted by a
guy you were sure was into you.

Sadly disgusted:

Applicable scenario: When you read about
another celeb cheating scandal.

Fearfully angry:

Applicable scenario: When your boyfriend stays
out until 5 in the morning without responding
to any of your texts, and you're somewhere
between thinking he's cheating and thinking
he's dead. Eep!

Fearfully surprised:

Applicable scenario: When your boyfriend does
that thing where he hides in the closet when
you get home and then jumps out to scare you
when you hang up your jacket. Ugh, so
hilarious, bro.

Fearfully disgusted:

Applicable scenario: When you approach the
wet towels your husband always leaves
crumpled in a smelly, probably molding pile in
an attempt to pick them up.

Angrily surprised:

Applicable scenario: When he forgets your
anniversary for the first time in five years.

Angrily disgusted:

Applicable scenario: When you actually smell
that heap of towels and then have to cancel all
plans to do laundry immediately in order to
avoid toxic poisoning of your lungs.

Disgustedly surprised:

Applicable scenario: When your best friend's
boyfriend, who you thought was the perfect guy,
turns out to be a shadester.


What emotions do you think science is still
missing?