The history of human emotions | Tiffany Watt Smith | TED Talk

Historian Tiffany Watt Smith explores “The history of human emotions” in her TED Talk on emotional intelligence and communication for mental health. Smith says the words we use to describe our emotions affect how we feel-- and they’ve often changed (sometimes very dramatically) in response to new cultural expectations and ideas. Learn more about how the language we use to describe how we feel continues to evolve--and pick up some new words used in different cultures to capture those fleeting feelings in words.