Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
In my book, Permission To Feel, I describe the Mood Meter, a tool to build greater emotional awareness that was built based on decades of research on the circumplex model of emotion. My colleague's David Caruso and Peter Salovey first used the tool to help people recognize and label emotions in their book The Emotionally Intelligent Manager. In the early 2000s, David and I reworked the Mood Meter which became the signature tool of RULER, the evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has now been adopted by over 5000 schools across the globe.
Soon after, people started asking for a way to track their feelings and moods over time so they could gain greater insight about their emotional lives. That’s when Robin Stern and I worked in collaboration with hopeLab to create the first Mood Meter App, which was released in 2013.
Six years later, I had the pleasure to collaborate with Ben Silbermann, co-founder and president of Pinterest on a new version of the app. Together, Ben with volunteers from Pinterest, and I with a team at Yale, including Robin Stern and Zorana Pringle decided to build How We Feel. This app includes an updated Mood Meter (now with 144 words!) and was designed to help you gain greater insight around the causes and consequences of your feelings and learn research-based strategies to help you regulate your feelings to achieve greater well-being. Two other cool features include a mini course on emotions and a reporting feature to help you understand your emotional patterns over time. Thanks to generous donations, it’s available for free on iOS and Android. I hope you enjoy the app and share it with your friends, family, and colleagues.
Go to https://howwefeel.org/ to sign up and download the app.
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