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This one is already helping me organize my understanding of emotion families. Dread as pointed at high probability events (kind of duh, but it’s distinguished from anxiety because the uncertainty element goes away which makes the definition clean). She frames vulnerability as a meta-emotion: the exposure we feel amidst emotional expression. Wish the material on coping was longer in this chapter.
— Jan 20, 2026 08:37AM
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Insightful chapter on comparison including the distinction between jealousy and envy which I was aware of but learned that unhealthy comparison says “be like everyone else but better.” Resentment as more about envy than anger “what am I denying myself that I envy you for allowing yourself?” Freudenfreude as empathetic joy
— Jan 21, 2026 06:09AM
