get a more familiar with the range of positive emotions.
>> Mm-hm. >> And so
one thing I'd like to do is kind of go through ten different kinds of
positive emotions really quickly.
And for each one, talk about, you know, the kind of circumstance that creates it.
The kind of appraisal or interper, how we interpret that
circumstance that triggers it, what it, what it makes us want to do right then,
and then, kind of long term, what are the outcomes that go with it.
You know, and just, just to give you of flavor of,
you know, positive emotions isn't just all happy.
You know, this, there's so many different kinds of positive emotions and in fact,
you know, I've, I've written in some places like oh I'd like to ban the word
happy just because it's, you know, it's used so, so often it's not very specific.
That's certainly I don't ban the word happy.
>> [LAUGH] >> But as a scientist it becomes a little
less useful sometimes so I try to get a little more specific.
The, the emotion that's probably closest to happy it would be joy.
The circumstances that elicit joy or, you know,
something, something's going really well for you, maybe better than expected.
Situation feels safe and when people feel joyful the,
the tendency that comes out in terms of a change in action urges,
sort of the jargon phrase we use is, is that people get playful.
You know, they, they kind of want to mix it up with others.
kind of, you know, be a little off the wall.
You know, that, that happy feeling, you know, comes with that tendency to play.
And one thing that's interesting about when people get playful,
they're actually learning.
They don't know they're learning but you're, you're kind of you know,
learning new connections with others or, you know you,
even in rough-and-tumble play people are learning physical skills and, or
the best hideouts [LAUGH] or you know, different things like that.
So anyway, the one that's probably closest to happy is joy, and
that's kind of an upbeat positive emotion.
That, within positive emotions there's also a lot of quieter ones.
Gratitude would be, you know, perhaps one of the quieter positive emotions.
Much more social.
the, the thing that makes gratitude stand apart from joy is that when
you take that good experience, that something good just happened to you and
you think oh, someone went out of their way to make that good thing happen.
>> Mm-hm. >> When that interpretation is added on to
joy, then it becomes gratitude.
It's like, oh, you did this?
You didn't have to do that.
I feel, you know, I cherish our friendship.
You know, and that sort of thing, that, that way in which,