Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020)
New Books in Neuroscience
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How Do You Measure Emotions?
There's research to suggest that the typical o across alll people as about two to one. People who are flourishing, doing really well in life, teme to have ratios three to one or more. What matters about positive emotion experience is the frequency, not the intensity. So we bring those mild positive emotions into the lab ind fairies,. You know, showing people short video clips of baby animals or a a beautiful nature scenes and then giving them an unexpected gift like candy. And so yo just not eating it during the experimental testing. A, sometimes they take it as a gift, you know, ase it's a sort of an unexpected gift. Cause if you get to eat it
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