…are recognized as joy, more sounds, more changes to the voice, more gestures, more body language, more ways of touching people. You can communicate joy through a hug or how you physically hold someone's hand or shake them with your good news. Joy even has a scent, and not a lot of emotions have that type of expressive signal where when you feel that emotion strongly, it changes the way you smell, and other people can literally inhale your joy. ◈ 15:14 Now, when an emotion has this many expressive signals, It is because there is some benefit to being able to show that emotion and some benefit of being able to recognize that emotion in others. And one of those functions for joy, is that showing joy, amplify. The Next Big Idea Daily · source
