2/29 2008
After finishing the “Emotoscope” ap for Facebook I was shaking dust from my brain to come up w/ another fun way for people to learn about feelings. Said to Patty (my wife), “How about a cool online EQ jeopardy game?”
“Boring” - she said it more delicately. “I mean, what would you ask?” **
Emma (8) is listening in (as usual - big ears!!) and pipes up, “jealousy?”
Right on! “What is jealousy?” I continue to Patty, “Or how about ‘ a little anger + sadness’?” Blank look from Patty, Emma again:
“disappointment?”
Whoa! Emotional literacy in action.
And not enough. Maybe being intelligent about emotions is the foundation. Then the graduate course: to be intelligent with emotions.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Hi Josh
A really neat application and I have invited my own readers to use it in their pursuit of emotional intelligence.
I would be really interested to know more about the ideas and assumptions on emotions and moods you used in creating the Emotoscope.
best JOHN
March 12th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Thanks John!
As you can see, we started by using the 4 most basic categories of “glad, sad, mad, afraid” - which is not as sophisticated as some models, of course, but easy to “get.” Then we took the assumption that all feelings have value, basically:
Glad: reinforcement of what’s “good”; energizing
Sad: reinforcement of what we care about; reflecting
Mad: reinforcement of what we don’t like; motivating
Afraid: questioning risk; evaluating
Then we applied these based on our own perceptions to write the sentence stems and the notes.
Does that help?
Warmly,
- Josh