How many emotions human has?

Answer 1

There are thousands. See http://www.emotioneric.com for some facial represntations of a couple hundred or so.

Answer 2

What emotions are identified and named varies from culture to culture. For example, English doesn't have a word for the feeling you get when you're cornered in a conversation and say something stupid, and then think of the perfect comeback when it's too late. French does. English doesn't have a word for the exact emotion you feel when misfortune befalls someone you hate. German does. Other languages might cluster several emotions together into one emotion (for example, they might consider "irritated" and "angry" to be exactly the same emotion.)

There is no scientific way to divide up emotions. Some go on a continuum- we might say that "feeling down" is on the lighter end of a continuum that ends in "suicidally depressed." Or is it? Should deep depression be a completely separate category? What makes us think they're different intensities of the same thing?

Is there any reason to separate the feeling you get when your mother nags you from the feeling you get when you haven't slept much recently? Do you think we need to distinguish between the feeling you get when you get a good grade with the feeling you get when someone you hate gets hurt? Or does calling it "satisfaction" properly and precisely label it as a single emotion?

Certain emotions are linked to chemicals in the brain. Seratonin, for example, is linked to happiness. Certain psychoactive drugs try to change the balance of different emotion-altering hormones. However, we really don't understand this complex system. We know that more seratonin makes you "happier," but we can't account for all the emotions. Our knowledge just isn't detailed enough.

One interesting note, though, is that facial expressions are universal. A smile in any culture is seen as a friendly, positive expression. A kid born and raised in India will make the exact same face when he gets angry as a kid born and raised in Toronto. Anyone from any culture can tell when anyone from any other culture is about to cry. We could try counting emotions based on these correlations, but my only concern is that our "cultural prejudices" will skew the experiment. For example, most American experiementors already have ideas of "happy," "sad," "frustrated," etc. that don't perfectly match what is actually conveyed by the associated facial expression. A smile does not merely mean "happy." No researcher who tries to maintain their assumptions like this will ever get results that accurately depict the human mind.

Answer 3

There are a lot of emotions that it can't be named

But here are a few:

Happy
Sad
Angry
Shy
Scared

Answer 4

Thousands.

Answer 5

Too many to name.

Answer 6

Great answer given by "TYF", above.
Suggest that you re-ask this question in the "Social science/psychology " forum, where it would be more appropriate.

Answer 7

anger
fear
happiness
sadness
joy
disgust
surprise
curiosity
acceptance
desire
shame