Sadness lasts longer than other emotions

http://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/springer-select/sadness-lasts-longer-than-other-emotions/39574

Oct. 30, 2014

Why is it that you can feel sad up to 240 times longer than you do feeling ashamed, surprised, irritated or even bored? It’s because sadness often goes hand in hand with events of greater impact such as death or accidents. You need more time to mull over and cope with what happened to fully comprehend it, say Philippe Verduyn and Saskia Lavrijsen of the University of Leuven in Belgium. Their research, published in Springer’s journal Motivation and Emotion, is the first to provide clear evidence to explain why some emotions last a longer time than others.

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