Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020)
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How Do We Measure Positive Emotions?
There's some broad base way that you can justify on an evolutionary basis on the fact that we have positive emotions. But what can you really do with this? Can you actually measure anything? Ea, measure how does this tie in to the physiological aspects of the environed body? What? Ra, can you show me anything other than just wave your hands around? Sure we am. Ah, there's all kinds of ways to measure emotions. I mean, the the key is to recognize that tions are a complex system that's both mind and body at once. We find that people simply get used to reviewing their day in such a way that it doesn't matter which emotion they
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