What is the oldest human emotion?

H.P. Lovecraft
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on the literature of fear. The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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What is our strongest emotion?

Generally, people tend to view anger as one of our strongest and most powerful emotions. Anger is a natural and "automatic" human response, and can in fact, serve to help protect us from harm. While angry behavior can be destructive, angry feelings themselves are merely a signal that we may need to do something.
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Which emotion is stronger love or fear?

Love is stronger than fear, but fear will win out unless we allow love to empower sacrificial action in the world. Love is stronger than fear, but only if we participate in love. Only as we entrust ourselves to love. Only as we allow love to nourish us.
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What was H.P. Lovecraft afraid of?

H.P. Lovecraft was a turn-of-the-20th-century author whose works were a key part of the subgenre of horror that would come to be known as “Weird fiction.” Born in Providence in 1890, Lovecraft grew up with an agonizing fear of both death and mental collapse.
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What is the scariest Lovecraftian creature?

Cthulhu. Cthulhu is the quintessential Lovecraftian god monster. It's what first comes to mind when people think about Lovecraft's writings.
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What does Cthulhu fear?

Cthulhu is the most famous of all of Lovecraft's creations, so much so that the entire mythos is named after him. H. P. Lovecraft based Cthulhu off of his fear of water.
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What is the hardest emotion to control?

Many people say that one of the most difficult emotions to handle is anger. Anger can weaken your ability to solve problems effectively, make good decisions, handle changes, and get along with others. Concerns about anger control are very common.
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What are the 3 strongest emotions?

The Four Most Powerful Emotions
  • #1 Fear. The greatest (and most primitive, since it originates from our early reptilian brain) is fear. ...
  • #2 Anger. Coming in at a close second is anger. ...
  • #3 Sorrow. The third emotion is probably sorrow. ...
  • #4 Joy. The light at the end of the emotional tunnel is of course joy.
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WHO fears falling in love?

Philophobia (Fear of Falling in Love)
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What is the number 1 emotion?

Happiness. Of all the different types of emotions, happiness tends to be the one that people strive for the most.
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What emotion is deeper than love?

Is there an emotion bigger than love? In a simple answer, yes there is. Gratitude. To have gratitude for someone means to have no judgment of them, or you.
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Are there 34 000 emotions?

With over 34,000 distinguishable emotions, psychologist Robert Pluchik has elegantly simplified and organized our instinctive state of mind into eight basic emotions in his Wheel of Emotions. Emotions influence how we live and interact with each other.
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What is the fear of kissing called?

Philemaphobia, or philematophobia, is the fear of kissing. It is common among young and inexperienced kissers who are afraid of doing something wrong.
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Is there a fear of dying?

Thanatophobia is an intense fear of death or the dying process. While it's natural to feel anxious about death from time to time, thanatophobia is an anxiety disorder that can disrupt every aspect of your life.
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What is Sarmassophobia?

Fear of dating and relationships, or sarmassophobia, is defined literally as a fear of love play. It "presents" as a fear of social situations, objects, and people who engage in behavior typical of romantic interactions. That includes flirting, kissing, and, yes, dating.
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What are the 2 real emotions?

Most people believe we have many emotions. However, according to Dorothy Lee, all our feeling and reactions are based on just two basic emotions – love and fear. The closer you can come to identifying your emotions as love or fear, the closer you are to determining which emotion is driving you.
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What are 7 universal emotions?

The Seven Universal Facial Expressions of Emotion Facial expressions that give clues to a person's mood, including happiness, surprise, contempt, sadness, fear, disgust, and anger.
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Which emotion is easiest to detect?

Results showed that happiness is among the easiest emotions to recognize while the disgust is always among the most difficult emotions to recognize for older adults.
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What emotion do people try to avoid?

Anger, fear, resentment, frustration, and anxiety are negative emotional states that many people experience regularly but try to avoid.
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Is love a emotion or feeling?

Love is an emotion that combines often two of the primary emotions. So love is an emotion, but you often have to figure out what its manifestation is.
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Is Cthulhu a good guy?

He is the great-grandson of the greatest evil in all of the Universe, though he himself is not evil. Cthulhu transcends morality. He is instead the priest of the dormant Old Gods, who can only return upon the proper alignment of the stars.
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What happens if you see Cthulhu?

The creature is described as “a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.” It is said to be so terrible to behold that it destroys the sanity of those who ...
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What is Cthulhu's full name?

So far, the full sentence, exact and correctly spelled, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" has never been mentioned in Marvel Comics in its original spelling.
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What is a devil's kiss?

Osculum infame is the name of a witch's supposed ritual greeting upon meeting with the Devil. The name means the 'shameful kiss' or 'kiss of shame', since it involved kissing the devil's anus, his "other" mouth. According to folklore, it was this kiss that allowed the Devil to seduce women.
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