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Social networks and positive and negative affect [PDF]
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011 We 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.
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Positive affect and sleep: A systematic review [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2017 A sizeable literature has implicated sleep in the phenomenological experience of various mood disorders, vulnerability to psychopathology, and overall poor psychological functioning.
Kim, S, Ong, AD, Steptoe, A, Young, S
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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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The Importance of Positive Affect: the Role of Affective Personality in Predicting Organizational Citizenship Behavior [PDF]
, 2017 Previous research demonstrates inconsistent results in predicting how affect influences organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). This study aims to solve the inconsistency by taking the position that positive affect and negative affect are orthogonal ...
Adrianson, L. (Lillemor) +2 more
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Societies, 2023 Recent data show that death anxiety and negative affect (NA) have become increasingly relevant because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The constant reminders of mortality through mass media and social media have contributed to this trend.
Maria Rita Sergi +6 more
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How do you feel about this goal? Goal-related affect, positive orientation, and personal goal realization in the family domain [PDF]
, 2017 Past research on individual-level differences has revealed associations between affect, positive beliefs and goal realization. Goal realization, however, varies not only between individuals (the individual level) but also within individuals according to ...
Gian Vittorio, Caprara +2 more
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Happy but still focused: failures to find evidence for a mood-induced widening of visual attention [PDF]
, 2013 In models of affect and cognition it is held that positive affect broadens the scope of attention. Consistent with this claim, previous research has indeed suggested that positive affect is associated with impaired selective attention as evidenced by ...
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