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Let’s look at one more chart that has to
do with emotions. Many psychologists
agree that all emotions fit onto the
following two-dimension chart. You’ll
notice the horizontal line has
unpleasant on one end and pleasant on
the other. The vertical line has intense
and mild on opposite ends. Find the
emotion frustrated. This is an
unpleasant emotion and can be
somewhat intense, depending on the
situation. Notice its location on the
chart. Does its location make sense to
you? Now find tired. It is located by
mild as it is not a very intense emotion,
and it is not an unpleasant feeling. One
more. Find happy. Happy is pleasant
but not very intense. If you can think of
emotions not on this chart, decide
where you would place them. You will
see that every emotion fits somewhere
within these two dimensions.

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