Online communities and resources focused on peoples’ emotional health have been around for a while. This includes the youth space through efforts like icouldbe.org’s online mentoring community which has been around for the past 10 years. And other resources tailored to help youth deal with particular issues, such as thesafespace.org to help prevent and cope with teen dating violence, have been adding value for a while.
But online functionalities, coupled with sourced content, designed to help folks deal with emotional issues represent a new direction for the web … an emotional rather than factual web.
Consider pepfly. Currently in beta, Pepfly is built on the scientifically supported idea that changing your everyday feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in small ways can have a powerful effect over time. Pepfly is an app that connects people to emotional experiences using the web. Pepfly uses a psychology recommendation engine to recognize the words you use to describe yourself and make sense of them in psychological terms. It uses a matching algorithm to connect your psychological state to a piece of media that might work for you. It uses a learning system to find patterns in your ratings so that it can deliver more of what works for you and less of what does not. Check out their FAQs.
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- Emotional Intelligence: Learning To Roll With The Punches (peterhbrown.wordpress.com)
- Psychology Professor to Examine Relationship Between Music and Emotions Using Moodagent (indiemusictech.com)