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

<p>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).</p>

<p>The words are scored and sorted in accordance with the atlas as follows.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/L2BkP.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/L2BkP.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>Mobbs AED (2020) An atlas of personality, emotion and behaviour. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227877. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227877" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227877</a></p>

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2020-06-02T12:35:23.943Z
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Tony Mobbs
<p>I'm trying to order Plutchik's emotions model from the most negative to the most positive.</p>

<p>These are the emotions in alphabetical order: </p>

<pre><code>anger, anticipation, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise, trust
</code></pre>

<p>I didn't find anything online regarding this. Can someone help me?</p>

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2020-02-16T20:29:43.277Z
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.
Bournebee
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2020-02-18T00:06:26.850Z
Why do you think they should have an ordering from negative to positive?
Bryan Krause
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2020-02-19T06:42:51.083Z
More generally, it isn't clear that emotions have this dimension at all.  For example, check out this [great post](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/9500/7001), where the same emotion can be very negative or very positive or anything else inbetween, depending on context.
Arnon Weinberg
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2020-02-19T09:49:08.343Z
@BryanKrause , because of this picture: https://positivepsychology.com/wp-content/uploads/geneva-emotion-wheel.png , but my problem is that some emotions (e.g. `fear` and `disgust`) have the same level of "negative".
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Plutchik's emotions from negative to positive
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# Plutchik's emotions from negative to positive

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-02-08)

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?

**Tags:** emotion, sentiment-analysis

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: 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.  
> **username_2**: Why do you think they should have an ordering from negative to positive?  
> **username_3**: More generally, it isn't clear that emotions have this dimension at all.  For example, check out this [great post](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/9500/7001), where the same emotion can be very negative or very positive or anything else inbetween, depending on context.  
> **username_0**: @BryanKrause , because of this picture: https://positivepsychology.com/wp-content/uploads/geneva-emotion-wheel.png , but my problem is that some emotions (e.g. `fear` and `disgust`) have the same level of "negative".  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2020-06-02. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

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.

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/L2BkP.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/L2BkP.png)

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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