Commenting on the recent Gallup survey which found that Singaporeans are the most emotionless in the world, SMU Behavioural Sciences Institute Director, Professor David Chan noted that each country's scores "actually represent the averaged intensity of emotions experienced without regard to the positive or negative valence of the emotions". He pointed out that when "we distinguish positive and negative emotions and consider them jointly, as we should, Singapore will have a moderate ranking…on emotional well-being."