I open this topic category to share only some interesting text snippets of papers that make me think about Gestalt work immediately. Entries here are more like crumbs left after a crispy bite, but they are not the bite itself...

[Crumbs]

Pennebaker, Mehl, & Niederhoffer (2003):

"The reality is that in daily speech, emotional writing, and even affect-laden poetry, less than 5% of the words people use can be classified as emotional. From an evolutionary perspective, language did not emerge as a vehicle to express emotion. In reviewing the various word use studies, it is striking how weakly emotion words predict people’s emotional state." (p. 571)

Do people simply
not have the habit (because other means are more useful)
not have the language
do not wish to reveal
emotional terms in writing?

And if people (independent of the reason) do not write emotional terms, may they also not speak them often (and convey emotions via other channels)?