Rock climbing or walking in a glade?
Sex or read a book?
Dancing or cup of tea?
Pary or dinner party?
If you chose mostly the second option, you may tend to prefer low arousal positive (LAP) emotional states. In other words, you like to feel relaxed, calm, and peaceful. If you chose first options, you may tend to prefer high arousal positive (HAP) states, like enthusiasm, excitement, and elation.
Differences can be personal but for populations they may derived from cultural ideas. Asian cultures tends to be LAP, American is HAP. Some psychological scales appear to rate LAP preferences as depression.
From Psych Your Mind Blog
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