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Positive affect and behavior change [PDF]
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 Affect and emotion have potent motivational properties that can be leveraged to promote desirable behavior change. Although interventions often employ fear appeals in an effort to motivate change, both theory and a growing body of empirical evidence suggest that positive affect and emotions can promote change by serving as proximal rewards for desired ...
Shiota, Michelle N. +3 more
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What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 Positive affect and emotion have become major topics in behavioral science, of growing importance in basic and applied research. A broad review of the literature reveals multiple, theoretically distinct constructs associated with the terms ‘positive affect’ and ‘positive emotion,’ sometimes conflated across this body of work.
Shiota, M.N. (author) +2 more
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The Role of Positive Affect in Aggression [PDF]
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2017 Aggressive behavior hurts us all and is studied across psychology’s subdisciplines. Classical theories discuss the causes of aggression in the context of negative affect (e.g., frustration, pain). However, more recent research implicates positive affect as an important correlate and cause of aggression.
Chester, David, Chester, David
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Positive affect and psychobiological processes [PDF]
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2010 Positive affect has been associated with favourable health outcomes, and it is likely that several biological processes mediate the effects of positive mood on physical health. There is converging evidence that positive affect activates the neuroendocrine, autonomic and immune systems in distinct and functionally meaningful ways.
Andrew Steptoe, Samantha Dockray
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Positive affect, negative affect, and social interaction. [PDF]
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1996 Two studies explored the relations of positive and negative affect (PA and NA) to social interaction. In Study 1, unacquainted dyads were surreptitiously videotaped as they participated in a 6-min interaction. Participants then evaluated the quality of the interaction. Independent observers also rated the videotaped interactions.
Diane S. Berry, Jane Sherman Hansen
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Trait affectivity and response styles to positive affect: Negative affectivity relates to dampening and positive affectivity relates to enhancing [PDF]
Personality and Individual Differences, 2016 Abstract Although there is ample research linking trait affect with response styles for negative affect, research on the link between trait affect and response styles for positive affect is scarce. The first aim of this study was to examine whether trait positive affect (trait PA) and trait negative affect (trait NA) predict cognitive response styles
Nelis, Sabine +4 more
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Positive affect, psychotherapy, and depression
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2018 Psychological interventions have established competence in the enrichment of mental health, controlling, and diminishing manifestations in mild or moderate mental illnesses. It is evident that psychological therapies, in particular, cognitive behavioural therapy, have quantitatively and qualitatively alleviated the symptoms of mood disorders and ...
Silky Arora, Roopali Sharma
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Social Networks and Positive and Negative Affect [PDF]
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011 AbstractWe followed 100 university students in the UK for one week, instructing them to record all face-to-face, phone and digital contacts during the day as well as their positive and negative affect. We wanted to see how positive and negative affect spread around a social network while taking into account participants’ socio-demographic data ...
Greetham Danica Vukadinovic +3 more
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Serial position and affect [PDF]
Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1975 This study examined the influence of serial position of subjects’ affect ratings of stimuli. Ninety subjects saw a serial list of 12 nonsense words repeated two, four, or eight times. Subjects rated the words and then attempted to recall them. Results indicated that: (a) A curvilinear relationship exists between serial position and affect, with first ...
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Maternal Positive Affect Mediates the Link Between Family Risk and Preschoolers’ Positive Affect [PDF]
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 2014 The present study sought to further specify conceptual models of youth positive affect (PA) by examining mothers' observed PA as a mediator of the relation between family risk (based on maternal reports of demographic factors) and children's PA in a sample of 82 mothers (M = 31.25 years, SD = 6.16) and their preschool-aged children (M = 3.51 years, SD =
Molly Davis, Cynthia Suveg, Anne Shaffer
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