It was a middle-aged amateur who saw that there was no mathematical basis in the Golden Ratio "three-to-one rule" of emotion

Happiness means that the ratio of "positive emotion" and "negative emotion" has a turning point of about 3Rosada's law(So-called 3-to-1 rule) is cited in various papers when it is published as psychology research, it is said that society is big enough to create a mysterious educational golden ratio of "3 praise and scold 1" I called for an echo. Since then, it was pointed out that "there is no mathematical basis for the original thesis", the American Psychological Association officially denied the law This Rosada's law was not in academic fields such as mathematics and psychology It was decided to collapse from an indication of a middle-aged British male.

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In 2005 a psychologist Dr. Barbara Frederiksson and Mr. Marshall Rosada confirmed that "the turning point where a man feels happiness has a balance between positive emotion and negative emotion of 2.9013"Positive Affect and the Complex Dynamics of Human Flourishing"Was announced. This means that when the amount of negative emotion is taken as 1, people feel happy when there is a positive emotion about 3 times higher than that, and on the contrary the happiness is not felt if the ratio is small, It was a very breakthrough conclusion as a psychological study that succeeded in quantifying happiness.

Rosada, who specialized in nonlinear dynamics as a business consultant, said "Positivity (Positive psychology) To Dr. Frederikson who studies the complex dynamics applicable to the theory. Mathematically devised from the study of Dr. Frederikson was the golden ratio of happiness "2.9013: 1". The paper by Dr. Frederikson describing Rosada's law will be quoted more than 350 times in other studies and further by Dr. Frederiksson himself "3: 1 law that only positive people will succeed"There was also a book as a general book, after which it became a boom to the point where a derived version of" In education, it is better to praise one praise one ".

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Dr. Frederikson was a prominent academic who studies psychology at the University of North Carolina, and Mr. Martin Seligman, who served as Chairman of the American Psychology Association and was called "Father of Positive Psychology", "She is" in Positive Psychology Genius. "It is said that there are few people who mathematically verify Rosada's law published by Dr. Frederikson, or even scientifically suspect it.


British Nick Brown, who was retiring early from the position of the manager of the IT network business in the UK at the time and was beginning to learn psychology at the graduate school, is "an evangeless amateur" who is not from the academic world named Psychology Association did. But in psychology Mr. Brown was acquiring a degree in engineering and computer science from Cambridge University, he said he had knowledge more than a general psychologist as a mathematical elementary. Mr. Brown of psychology amateur himself verified the law of famous Rosada himself, and although the number verified by the paper certainly applies to the equation, other data is not included and the law (equation) is He seems to have noticed that he is only "self-referring" to the last.


Mr. Brown called for Dr. Alan Sokar for cooperation to clarify that there is no scientific basis for Rosada's law. In order to criticize humanities critics who use mathematics and science for authoritization, Dr. Socal wrote a pseudo-philosophical article "(PDF file)Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum GravityHe was a physicist known for writing and was a craftspeople-temperament scientist with critical eyes to scientifically unguarded theory. Mr. Brown told Dr. Socal, "I am a graduate student who has no name, I do not have the technique to publish my argument as an academic paper, send the reason why it is unlikely that a paper will be adopted at the time of announcement" Dr. Socal, who noticed the mail several weeks after receiving, acknowledged cooperation.

Mr. Brown pointed out that Mr. Brown's extremely long critique was not an expertise in his own field but as a matter of mathematics and physics theory is rudimentary and it points out all the mistakes of Rosada Fredrikson paper He said that. "I do not know the actual state of quotation in psychology, but in physics it means that if the paper is quoted 350 times, it means that it is a very important research - if you search on Google it will hit 27,000 times It turned out that the problem papers interworked with businesses and business schools, and it turned out that big money was moving, "he said.

Dr. Socal, who instructed him to shorten too long a critical paper, advised Mr. Brown to bring his thesis to the American Psychological Association. In addition, at that time, Dr. Socal who felt that "(Mr Brown's draft is fun and likes style)" seemed to have thought that he would not become a coauthor of himself as a co-author.

Nonetheless, it was difficult for publishers co-editor Dr. Frederikson, authority of positive psychology, to seek criticism of a paper criticizing Dr. Frederikson's research. Therefore, Harris Friedman, a psychologist who was not familiar with mathematics while having doubts about Rosada's law, was asked to participate in Dr. Brown / Dr. Sookar's research, and further discussion was deepened.

After that, the first paper submitted to the American Psychological Association as three co-authors was rejected as it was a too provocative title "The Complex Dynamics of an Intellectual Imposture" It was decided. Following the refusal of the paper because the word "Imposture" made him feel nuance "intentionally deceived" by Dr. Frederiksson and Rosada, three people repeatedly negotiated with the American Psychological Association As a result, it seems that it finally got accepted as a title including a modest stimulus "The Complex Dynamics of Wishful Thinking".

The Complex Dynamics of Wishful Thinking: The Critical Positivity Ratio
(PDF file)http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/complex_dynamics_final_clean.pdf

Mr. Brown 's paper was released, the mathematical backing of Rosada' s law was completely denied. After that, Dr. Frederikson acknowledged that he did not truly understand Rosada's law of mathematics, accepted the mathematical part defect, but did not accept that there was a problem with the other research outcomes That's right. Rosada's law that a mathematical deficiency has been pointed out by a student in psychology of a single brisk punctuation and the theory itself has collapsed, but many psychologists do not understand mathematics deeply, and as Rosada's law It is pointed out that the lack of resistance to mathematics not required by psychologists can shake the scientific reliability of psychology.