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ease affective turmoil (Kircanski, Lieberman, & Craske, 2012). New-born infants do
feel sensations such as pleasure or distress, but they develop emotion concepts later
in life by categorizing sensations into different concepts. In this process, words play a
crucial role and help infants develop both language and world knowledge. People
with high emotional granularity, i.e., with breadth and depth of word knowledge and
concepts, are found to be more skillful in regulating their emotions.
This is good news for language teachers