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The Most Common Negative Emotion
The most common negative emotion people express is regret. The second most common emotion over all that people discuss is regret, the second only to love. Why is it so common? Well, because we human beings are wired for pleasure. And what we know from 50 years of science is that our cognitive machinery is pre programme for regret. Regret fies, i is part of our kin of machinery. Because regret more than any other emotion in our life, clarifies what we care about and instructs us how to do better if we treat it right.