id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2342 Sadness - Wikipedia .html text/html 2970 562 65 Sadness is an emotional pain associated with, or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow. Sadness is one of the "six basic emotions" described by Paul Ekman, along with happiness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust.[2]:271–4 Berry Brazelton suggests that acknowledging sadness can make it easier for families to address more serious emotional problems.[5]:46; 48 They observed increased brain activity in the bilateral inferior and orbitofrontal cortex.[14] In a study that induced sadness in subjects by showing emotional film clips, the feeling was correlated with significant increases in regional brain activity, especially in the prefrontal cortex, in the region called Brodmann's area 9, and the thalamus. Sadness is, as stated by Klaus Scherer, one of the "best-recognized emotions in the human voice", although it's "generally somewhat lower than that of facial expression". Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech: The Bias of Language and Paralanguage. "Vocal Expression and Perception of Emotion" (PDF). "Anger and advancement versus sadness and subjugation: the effect of negative emotion expressions on social status conferral". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2342.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2342.txt