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I'm trying to order Plutchik's emotions model from the most negative to the most positive.

These are the emotions in alphabetical order: 

anger, anticipation, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise, trust

I didn't find anything online regarding this. Can someone help me?

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  • $\begingroup$ I think they are context specific. E.g Disgust, you may assume to be negative but it's evolution & purpose is to keep you alive (avoiding certain foods). Depends on the perspective. $\endgroup$
    – Bournebee
    Commented Feb 16, 2020 at 20:29
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    $\begingroup$ Why do you think they should have an ordering from negative to positive? $\endgroup$
    – Bryan Krause ♦
    Commented Feb 18, 2020 at 0:06
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    $\begingroup$ More generally, it isn't clear that emotions have this dimension at all. For example, check out this great post, where the same emotion can be very negative or very positive or anything else inbetween, depending on context. $\endgroup$
    – Arnon Weinberg ♦
    Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 6:42
  • $\begingroup$ @BryanKrause , because of this picture: positivepsychology.com/wp-content/uploads/… , but my problem is that some emotions (e.g. fear and disgust) have the same level of "negative". $\endgroup$
    – Minions
    Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 9:49

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Negative to positive suggests a linear scale between negative and positive. The literature does not seem to support such a one dimensional scale.

There is a two-dimensional taxonomy that has the personality descriptor 'negative' in cell (-2,-2) and positive in (2,2), which suggests a diagonal line on the two-dimensional plane that best represents negative to positive (Mobbs, 2020).

The words are scored and sorted in accordance with the atlas as follows.

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Mobbs AED (2020) An atlas of personality, emotion and behaviour. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227877. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227877

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