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the body voting on what matters before the mind finishes reading the ballot
means A strong feeling — like fear, joy, anger, or love — that arises in response to something and often shows up in the body before you can name it.
from From the French émotion, built on the Latin emovere, 'to move out, stir up, disturb' — e- ('out') plus movere ('to move'). The same movere that powers 'motion' and 'motive' sits at its core, so an emotion is, quite literally, something that moves you. The word arrived in English in the late 16th century first meaning a physical stirring or commotion — a crowd surging, a body trembling — and only later settled into the inner weather of feeling.
- chemical speed
- a feeling's chemical surge lasts about ninety seconds
- gut wiring
- the gut makes most of the body's serotonin
- contagious
- crowds sync moods through unconscious facial mimicry
- naming it
- labeling a feeling measurably calms the amygdala
olympic medal ceremony — athletes crying on podium since 1896, peak emotional moment in sports
funeral of princess diana — 2 billion people watched in 1997, mass public grief displayed globally
first moon landing broadcast — 600 million watched apollo 11 in 1969, widespread awe and wonder