Researchers have taken the hundreds of words for different feelings in the English language and have used statistical analysis to discover that

a. no two feelings are alike.
b. they can reduce the list to six basic emotions.
c. they can reduce the list to two basic emotions.
d. anger is the strongest emotion.


Answer: b.

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