Quoidbach, Jordi
[Ramon Llull University, Spain]
Mikolajczak, Moïra
[UCL]
Gruber, June
[University of Colorado Boulder, United States]
Kotsou, Ilios
[Grenoble Ecole de Management, France]
Kogan, Aleksandr
[University of Cambridge, England]
Norton, Michael I.
[Harvard Business School, United States]
In 2014 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, we reported two studies demonstrating that the diversity of emotions that people experience – as measured by the Shannon-Wiener entropy index – was an independent predictor of mental and physical health, over and above the effect of mean-levels of emotion. Brown and Coyne (2017) question both our use of Shannon’s entropy and our analytic approach. We thank Brown and Coyne for their interest in our research; however, both their theoretical and empirical critiques do not undermine the central theoretical tenets and empirical findings of our research. We present an in-depth examination that reveals that our findings are statistically robust, replicable, and reflect a theoretically-grounded phenomenon with real-world implications.
Bibliographic reference |
Quoidbach, Jordi ; Mikolajczak, Moïra ; Gruber, June ; Kotsou, Ilios ; Kogan, Aleksandr ; et. al. Robust, replicable, and theoretically-grounded: A response to Brown and Coyne’s (2017) commentary on the relationship between emodiversity and health. In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 147, no. 3, p. 451-458 (2018) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/191290 |