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.
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
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