[niels_olson]

interesting idea. Doc here. I would organize them as

1. Depresssion 2. Anxiety 3. Hostility 4. Happiness 5. Confidence 6. Compassion

Anxiety and Depression definitely go together, in the same way that hostility and happiness are actually similar in terms type of emotion, in terms of level of intellect, and confidence and compassion would be at the highest end of that spectrum.

I would also change the colors to group them: anxiety and depression as blues, hostile and happy as reds, and confidence and compassion as greens. Or something like that.

[tansey]

Thanks.

My co-founders [1][2] actually did spend a decent amount of time thinking about this. The emotions are first sorted into negative on the left and positive on the right. The order is for symmetry of left/right side words:

- Anxiety is the opposite of Confidence

- Hostility is the opposite of Compassion

- Depression is the opposite of Happiness

As for the colors, each one is correlated to the typical psychological association for that color. The exception is Happiness which should be yellow but yellow doesn't render well on websites.

[1] Yanon Volcani (Clinical Psychologist): http://www.volcani.com

[2] David Fogel (AI Expert): http://www.natural-selection.com/people_dfogel.html

[niels_olson]

If you're trying to illustrate position on three spectrums, illustrate three spectrums. 6 bars on a graph implies, however vaguely, to the reader, despite your intent, that the abscissa means something. But it doesn't. It just confuses the picture. so get rid of that abscissa.

In any case, anxiety and depression are generally a package deal in clinic. So I would put them together visually.

Depression --------------------X------- Happiness

Anxiety ----------------X----------- Confidence

Hostility -------------------x-------- Compassion