111: Judith Moskowitz: How to Flourish Amidst Stress
No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp
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The Language of Positive and Negative Emotions
We've been using the language of positive and negative a lot already without defining those. Are there definitions for that? We don't use positive in the term in the sense that positive is good. It's not a value judgment. It's a valence. So from positively toned things like happiness and joy and the gratitude for those more positively toned versus the negatively toned emotions which are sadness and fear, for example. You can have really high arousal emotions, like excitement, high arousal positive is excitement and enthusiasm. And then lowervalence positive emotions are things like calm and contentment and satisfaction.
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