Emodiversity

"Man muß nicht in jede Jauche-Grube gestiegen sein."
Aber Emotionen verlieren ihre Signalwirkung und wegweisende Qualität wenn sie zu einheitlich sind. Sie verlieren ihre handlunsleitende FUNKTION:
Sich alles schönreden und positiv zurechtdenken funktioniert nicht.

Compare three individuals: Jack experiences three moments of joy in a given day, Paul experiences two moments of joy and one moment of contentment, and Lucy experiences two moments of joy and one moment of anxiety. If we sum the number of positive emotions (joy and contentment) and subtract the number of negative emotions (anxiety), Jack and Paul would be equally happy, and happier than Lucy. 

Is well-being simply the result of such simple arithmetic subtractions? Our team investigates whether not just the mean levels but also the diversity of emotion that people experience may have hidden benefits for their well-being. In a recent set of scientific studies studies of over 37,000 people, we drawing from research methods in natural sciences used to quantify the biodiversity of ecosystems to show that the emodiversity of Jack, Paul, and Lucy’s emotions—the variety and relative abundance of the emotions they experience—is an independent and integral component of the human emotional ecosystem, one that predicts both mental and physical health.

You can compute emodiversity scores using the following formula derived from Shannon’s entropy:

 

where:

S = total number of emotions experienced (richness)

pi = proportion of S made up of the ith emotions

Specifically, in order to compute emodiversity, you should:

• Divide the number of times an individual experienced emotion #1 by the total number of times she experienced all types of emotions. This gave us p1.
• Multiply this proportion by its natural log (p1 * ln p1)
• Repeat this for each specific emotions assessed. 
• Sum all the (pi * ln pi) products and multiplied the total by -1.

High values are representative of more diverse emotional experiences. An individual experiencing only one type of emotion would have an emodiversity value of 0 because pi would equal 1 and be multiplied by ln pi, which would equal 0. If all the emotions of the list were evenly experienced then emodiversity would be maximal. So the emodiversity value captures in a single index not only the number of emotions an individual experience (richness) but also the relative abundance of the different emotions that makes a person’s emotional experience (evenness).

http://www.emodiversity.org/

http://media.wix.com/ugd/c5025f_ec9fbc5073054e4487031b86d68c1700.pdf

" On physical ground the various parts of one's brain relates to vivid emotional reactions and so much better in terms of active participation of an individual being and his/her brain function.It's like gym-exercise for brain to gain better mind.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2014/10/13/emodiversity-mix-emotions-health/#.VgMSBN_tmkp

"It's important to have emodiversity -- a variety of negative and positive feelings," says June Gruber, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. If we're never out of sorts, we can't fully appreciate the sweetness of happiness. 
Grübeln beginnt wenn wir uns nicht konzentrieren.
Focus on doing just one thing, like crafting or cooking; a recent Harvard University study found that bad moods were most apt to strike when the subject's mind was wandering. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/28/beat-bad-mood_n_6753266.html