The Science
of Teens

Emotions: What Exactly Are These Emotions? Emotions act like our daily dose of defense mechanisms that tend to shape the moods we go through every day. This is what emotions are in layman’s terms, but as we dive further into the realm of psychology, they become psychological states consisting of three different phases: a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioral response. As said by Paul Ekman, we have six major emotions: anger, sadness, joy, fear, dis