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D. Earl Johnston discusses his exploration of emotions and identifies 271 distinct emotional states.

Imagine you and your teenager are sitting down for a nice meal and she/he asks, “What do you know about depression?” and you’re stumped for an answer. Faced with that question, D. (Doug) Earl Johnston set out to find the answer and, along the way, identified 271 additional and distinct emotional states that formed the basis of his latest book, Choosing Emotions: Thinking with Your Head and Acting with Your Heart. Doug shares what he learned about the amazing array of emotions all of us feel a...

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