The Emotion Thesaurus
by Becca Puglisi, Angela Ackerman
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…you don't have much vocabulary for your emotions, two book I really recommend are Brene Brown's "Atlas of the Heart" [1], where a researcher names, describes, and compares the various emotions, and "The Emotion Thesaurus" [2], a writer's guide that includes a lot of description that can help with pattern-matching. Once you have a handle on the feelings and what triggers them, I think you'll get some insight into the…
on “Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?” ↗…have a collection of 1050 tuples with following information: 1. Emotion 1 2. Transition Type 3. Emotion 2 "Transition type" is either "escalates to" or "de-escalates to." I took these data from "The Emotion Thesaurus" by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi. I want to create something visual which will allow me to better navigate in those emotions. If I render these data with Graphviz Dot, I get a giant (42 MB) PNG…
on “Ask HN: How can I visualize transitions between emotions?” ↗