What's the Difference Between Happiness and Sadness?

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The most exciting thing i've ever worked on is the fundamental dimensions of meaning. And what was sort of dug out of over decades and through small scale studies with people, obviouslys students in encychologe rits. The more recent stuff, aot, thatadd, we'll get to it. We have all these aspects of meaning associate with hem, how you feel about somethingand feeling and meaning allied and interesting ways. So they are things like, hard to soft, good to bad, big to small,. That, hay, they represent s of some spectrum unso we; so this was done, as i said, in the forties and fifties. It

A good story takes you on an emotional journey, with ups and downs along the way. Thanks to science, we can quantify that. Peter Dodds works on understanding the structure of stories and other strings of words (including Twitter) by analyzing the valence of individual words, then studying how they are strung together in different kinds of stories. Understanding these structures offers powerful insight into how people communicate and how to reach them. As Peter says, “Never bring statistics to a story fight.”

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Peter Dodds received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont and Director of the Vermont Complex Systems Center. He has won multiple teaching awards, and was elected a Fellow of the Network Science Society.

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