“…Moreover, some studies argue that participants carry intuitive beliefs about the structure of emotions and tend to impose a bipolar structure on unipolar scales . The structure of emotions also looks different on the level of situational states than the level of stable person characteristics (Ketonen, Dietrich, Moeller, Salmela-Aro, & Lonka, 2017;Schmukle, Egloff, & Burns, 2002;Vansteenlandt, Mechelen & Nezlek, 2005;Zelenski & Larsen, 2000). Vansteenlandt and colleagues (2005) found that positive and negative emotions were negatively correlated within situations (state-level), while they were uncorrelated to very slightly correlated (.15 ≤ r ≤ -.24) across individuals (trait-level).…”