I’m given to understand that English is unusually bad in this regard; that would seem to screen out standard human variance unless English-speakers are unusually varied.
Also, I don’t think it’s generalizing from one example; humans demonstrate pretty standard emotions (and facial expressions, for that matter) AFAICT.
(Also, there’s The Psychological Unity of Mankind. We don’t want to overgeneralize, sure, but evidence regarding one human mind is, in fact, evidence regarding all of them. It’s far from overwhelming evidence, but still.)
I’m given to understand that English is unusually bad in this regard; that would seem to screen out standard human variance unless English-speakers are unusually varied.
Also, I don’t think it’s generalizing from one example; humans demonstrate pretty standard emotions (and facial expressions, for that matter) AFAICT.
(Also, there’s The Psychological Unity of Mankind. We don’t want to overgeneralize, sure, but evidence regarding one human mind is, in fact, evidence regarding all of them. It’s far from overwhelming evidence, but still.)