Emotional diversity experiments - Deepstash

Emotional diversity experiments

In a recent study, focused on measuring the systematic inflammation, a large number of participants were asked to rate the extent to which they had experienced both positive and negative emotions throughout the day, for 30 days. As a result, the people who experienced a wider range of positive emotions were also the ones who had the lowest rates of inflammation.

228

921 reads

The idea is part of this collection:

Managing Time Like a Pro

Learn more about mentalhealth with this collection

How to set achievable goals

How to manage time for personal and professional life

How to avoid distractions

Related collections

Similar ideas to Emotional diversity experiments

Happiness and emotional diversity

Happiness and emotional diversity

While most of us believe that happiness is the key to a long and healthy life, meaning first and foremost a life without stress, recent studies have shown that actually, it is emotional diversity that enables us to live longer and healthier rather than happiness itself.

This means that

Show grattitude

Show grattitude

In one study, participants were asked to engage in a writing exercise for 10 to 20 minutes each night before bed.

Some were instructed to write about daily hassles, some about neutral events, and some about things they were grateful for. 

The results found that people who had...

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates