Emotional granularity: Difference between revisions

Using the latter as an example, onean individual with high emotional granularity would be able to differentiate between feeling depressed, bored, tired, and miserable. An individual exhibiting low emotional granularity would clump together all low arousal and negative emotions.<ref name="Handbook of Emotions">{{cite book|first1=Kristen A.|last1=Lindquist|first2=Lisa Feldman|last2=Barrett|editor1-last=Lewis|editor1-first=Michael|editor2-first=Jeannette M.|editor2-last=Haviland-Jones|editor3-first=Lisa Feldman|editor3-last=Barrett|title=Handbook of Emotions|edition=Third|year=2008|publisher=[[Guilford Press]]|location=New York|isbn=978-1-59385-650-2|page=516|chapter=Emotional Complexity}}</ref> Perhaps inIn an experiment testing one's emotional granularity, as explained in the following section, a participant would be given hypothetical scenarios to seedetermine their ability to distinguish between emotions. For example, researchers wouldmight present a traumatic situation to seeobserve whether it induces anger, fear, frustration, or more than one of these emotions, indicating whether that the participant is able to produce discrete emotion labels, or instead clumps together these high arousal/negative emotions.