Your text discusses some named emotional blends, such as strategic embarrassment and schadenfreude. However, people regularly experience unnamed emotional blends that are no less clear. Give an example of an emotional blend that you have experienced.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary but should communicate the students’ understanding that an emotional blend involves multiple emotions, usually of different valence.

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A. practicality B. proposal C. action D. need E. strategy

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