Barrett: Emotional granularity improves school performance, stress resilience, and illness recovery

“There's research which shows really clearly that in, in Western cultural contexts like ours, knowing a lot of emotion concepts and a lot of emotion words and being able to Use those to create very nuanced, precise, emotional events actually is really helpful. It's helpful socially. It's helpful in school. Those kids do better. They perform better in school. It is allows you to be resilient to when bad things happen to you. It helps you cope. So kids who what we call this emotional granularity, meaning your emotional life is very precise and granular, you know, so one grain of sand is not the same as another grain of sand. So one instance of anger is not the same as the other instance of anger. Those kids, you know, tend to use alcohol less when they're stressed. People even recover faster from physical illness when they're more granular.”

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