humans report the presence of some emotion virtually every waking moment, and these emotions almost always have a valence (Lucas & Diener 2008: 471-472).
I suppose this isn’t an important point for this article, but this is surprising to me. I think what I feel most of the time while awake, is interest (not quite flow, but sometimes), e.g. while reading whatever, writing comments, etc., and I’m not sure I’d consider that necessarily positive or negative affectively; it seems pretty much neutral. Maybe they classify that as positive?
I suppose this isn’t an important point for this article, but this is surprising to me. I think what I feel most of the time while awake, is interest (not quite flow, but sometimes), e.g. while reading whatever, writing comments, etc., and I’m not sure I’d consider that necessarily positive or negative affectively; it seems pretty much neutral. Maybe they classify that as positive?