Calculating Emotions-20pgd25

Topic: The topic that I chose for my Inquiry was “calculating emotions” this to me is something that everyone can relate to, as the goal with our inquiry was to find math in a topic that isn’t considered mathematical. I thought that our emotions are something that is relevant to every single person no matter their math background.

Main Questions: In my inquiry I talked about the makeup of emotions, how our brains respond to emotions, dopamine, examples of  emotional equations {we did an interactive piece where everyone had the opportunity to calculate the ration of their anxieties and fears, and finally I talked about how subjective emotions are and the chaos theory of how sensitive these equations are.

Further Questions and Extension: While doing my Inquiry project I became very interested in a lot of branches of emotions and how math can be related in a bunch of different aspects, I came up with the further questions; is it possible to measure the intensity of an emotion?, how many emotions is it possible to feel at once?, how can we chemically relieve addiction and fit our medications specifically to a person and their ratio of emotions? and finally, with all the information we have about a persons life is it possible to calculate how someone is going to feel after a certain experience. My dad actually got me a book on emotions after my project and I have been looking through it and have developed some even further questions based on what I have read; How has the media affected the intensity of our emotions? Are the generations becoming more or less sensitive, how and why?