What Makes Us Feel Good? A Data-driven Investigation of Positive Emotion Experience
Published on by R.G. Kamiloglu
Is feeling grateful a different kind of experience than feelings of other positive emotions like pride, awe, or love? Here, we use semantic space theory to test which positive emotional experiences are distinct from each other based on in-depth personal narratives of experiences involving 22 positive emotions (n = 165; 3,592 emotional events).