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Emodiversity and the emotional ecosystem

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, ISSN: 0096-3445, Vol: 143, Issue: 6, Page: 2057-2065
2014
  • 159
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 328
    Captures
  • 2
    Mentions
  • 1
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    159
  • Captures
    328
  • Mentions
    2
    • Blog Mentions
      2
      • Blog
        2
  • Social Media
    1
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      1
      • Facebook
        1

Article Description

Bridging psychological research exploring emotional complexity and research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce-and demonstrate the benefits of-emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience. Two cross-sectional studies across more than 37,000 respondents demonstrate that emodiversity is an independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits- over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the 5 main dimensions of personality. Emodiversity is a practically important and previously unidentified metric for assessing the health of the human emotional ecosystem.

Bibliographic Details

Quoidbach, Jordi; Gruber, June; Mikolajczak, Moïra; Kogan, Alexsandr; Kotsou, Ilios; Norton, Michael I

American Psychological Association (APA)

Psychology; Neuroscience

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