Emotional Rollercoaster: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings

While happiness can be a background emotion, joy indicates the quality of feeling at one particular moment.

. It is not the case that one part of the brain lights up for fear and another for anger, but each emotion employs different combinations of brain systems.

At first sight it appears that more of these emotions are negative than positive, but on this journey through the emotions it soon becomes clear that feelings cannot be categorised as simply good or bad.