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interesting idea. Doc here. I would organize them as 1. Depresssion 2. Anxiety 3. Hostility 4. Happiness 5. Confidence 6. Compassion Anxiety and Depression de

interesting idea. Doc here. I would organize them as 1. Depresssion 2. Anxiety 3. Hostility 4. Happiness 5. Confidence 6. Compassion Anxiety and Depression definitely go together, in the same way that hostility and happiness are actually similar in terms type of emotion, in terms of level of intellect, and confidence and compassion would be at the highest end of that spectrum. I would also change the colors to group them: anxiety and depression as blues, hostile and happy as reds, and confidence and compassion as greens. Or something like that.

tansey 15y ago
Thanks. My co-founders [1][2] actually did spend a decent amount of time thinking about this. The emotions are first sorted into negative on the left and positive on the right. The order is for symmetry of left/right side words: - Anxiety is the opposite of Confidence - Hostility is the opposite of Compassion - Depression is the opposite of Happiness As for the colors, each one is correlated to the typical psychological association for that color. The exception is Happiness which should be yellow but yellow doesn't render well on websites. [1] Yanon Volcani (Clinical Psychologist): http://www.volcani.com http://www.volcani.com [2] David Fogel (AI Expert): http://www.natural-selection.com/people_dfogel.html http://www.natural-selection.com/people_dfogel.html
- niels_olson 15y ago
  If you're trying to illustrate position on three spectrums, illustrate three spectrums. 6 bars on a graph implies, however vaguely, to the reader, despite your intent, that the abscissa means something. But it doesn't. It just confuses the picture. so get rid of that abscissa. In any case, anxiety and depression are generally a package deal in clinic. So I would put them together visually. Depression --------------------X------- Happiness Anxiety ----------------X----------- Confidence Hostility -------------------x-------- Compassion

tansey 15y ago

Thanks. My co-founders [1][2] actually did spend a decent amount of time thinking about this. The emotions are first sorted into negative on the left and positive on the right. The order is for symmetry of left/right side words: - Anxiety is the opposite of Confidence - Hostility is the opposite of Compassion - Depression is the opposite of Happiness As for the colors, each one is correlated to the typical psychological association for that color. The exception is Happiness which should be yellow but yellow doesn't render well on websites. [1] Yanon Volcani (Clinical Psychologist): http://www.volcani.com http://www.volcani.com [2] David Fogel (AI Expert): http://www.natural-selection.com/people_dfogel.html http://www.natural-selection.com/people_dfogel.html

niels_olson 15y ago
If you're trying to illustrate position on three spectrums, illustrate three spectrums. 6 bars on a graph implies, however vaguely, to the reader, despite your intent, that the abscissa means something. But it doesn't. It just confuses the picture. so get rid of that abscissa. In any case, anxiety and depression are generally a package deal in clinic. So I would put them together visually. Depression --------------------X------- Happiness Anxiety ----------------X----------- Confidence Hostility -------------------x-------- Compassion