Positive Emotions - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/positive-emotions/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:45:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png Positive Emotions - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/positive-emotions/ 32 32 The Real World Benefits of Expressing Gratitude https://allpsych.com/the-real-world-benefits-of-expressing-gratitude/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-real-world-benefits-of-expressing-gratitude Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:17:31 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=88262 Gratitude: As Old as Animal Kind Gratitude may be an evolutionary component of human development, passed down for thousands of years according to sociologist Georg Simmel (Greater Good Magazine, n.d.). While we may think of it as something personal and internal, it is also considered an important social skill that helps humans interact with each…

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]]> The Fading Affect Bias in Pursuit of the Pleasant Life https://allpsych.com/the-fading-affect-bias-in-pursuit-of-the-pleasant-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fading-affect-bias-in-pursuit-of-the-pleasant-life Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:10:52 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=88257 Fading Affect Bias (FAB) The Fading Affect Bias, or FAB for short, refers to the cognitive phenomenon supported by research showing that memories associated with negative emotions tend to fade faster than memories associated with positive emotions (Skowronski, 2014). This means we tend to forget the bad times at a faster rate than the good…

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]]> Well-Being and the Five ‘Happy’ Lives https://allpsych.com/well-being-and-the-five-happy-lives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=well-being-and-the-five-happy-lives Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:39:36 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=88242 Well-Being and The PERMA Model Seligman (2011) argues that well-being is enhanced through thriving in one or more pillars of well-being. His model, often referred to as the PERMA Model, consists of Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (or Achievement). The more we thrive in each of these, the higher our well-being, according to…

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]]> Is Compassion the Key to Enjoying Sad Music? https://allpsych.com/is-compassion-the-key-to-enjoying-sad-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-compassion-the-key-to-enjoying-sad-music Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:10:01 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2625 A question that often comes up in music psychology is why so many people enjoy music that recalls negative emotions like sadness. It seems paradoxical that people would seek out and apparently experience positive feelings from music that portrays negative emotions. A new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology puts forward one possible explanation…

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]]> Writing Therapy to Develop “Good” Rumination https://allpsych.com/writing-therapy-to-develop-good-rumination/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writing-therapy-to-develop-good-rumination Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:33:09 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2603 Repetitively turning over negative thoughts, or ruminating, is a behavior that has been explored as a target for therapy in conditions like depression. After all, it’s not hard to imagine that getting stuck in a cycle of replaying negative thoughts might harm mental health. So what’s the best way to stop ruminating on negative thoughts?…

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]]> Reflecting on Life Lessons Can Help With Aging https://allpsych.com/reflecting-on-life-lessons-can-help-with-aging/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reflecting-on-life-lessons-can-help-with-aging Thu, 07 May 2020 22:05:47 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2568 In a general sense, life looks the same for all of us: stuff happens to us. We learn from that stuff, sometimes. We get older. Ideally, we have a sense that there’s some progression to our lives. Learning from our past experiences helps us live our lives more effectively as we get older, and eventually…

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]]> Economic Hardship Might Increase Tendency to Help Others https://allpsych.com/economic-hardship-might-increase-tendency-to-help-others/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=economic-hardship-might-increase-tendency-to-help-others Tue, 05 May 2020 22:33:33 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2565 If there’s an upside to adversity, it might be greater empathy for others. That idea makes a certain intuitive sense to us, and there’s some evidence to support it. Take, for example, a 2016 study published in the journal Emotion. In the study, psychology researchers collected information about how much adversity people had encountered in…

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]]> Lessons in Coping From a Teacher Who Rowed Across the Atlantic https://allpsych.com/lessons-in-coping-from-a-teacher-who-rowed-across-the-atlantic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lessons-in-coping-from-a-teacher-who-rowed-across-the-atlantic Wed, 08 Apr 2020 23:36:02 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2521 In 2018, a biology teacher from Cincinnati named Bryce Carlson decided to row across the North Atlantic. That feat is about as difficult as it sounds. Carlson faced no shortage of obstacles on his journey, from a capsized boat to $85,000 in debt. But ultimately, he became the first American to row across the Atlantic…

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]]> Tendency to Feel Awe Bodes Well for School Success https://allpsych.com/tendency-to-feel-awe-bodes-well-for-school-success/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tendency-to-feel-awe-bodes-well-for-school-success Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:00:24 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2317 The more psychologists learn about awe, the more they’re coming to see it as an emotion that brings out some of the best of human behavior. Awe seems to drive scientific inquiry, with scientists being more prone to awe and non-scientists becoming more interested in science when they experience awe. Feelings of awe can also…

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]]> Anticipating Future Nostalgia https://allpsych.com/anticipating-future-nostalgia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anticipating-future-nostalgia Mon, 05 Aug 2019 23:29:06 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2183 We’ve all had the experience of looking back and feeling nostalgic about a particular time in our lives. A slightly more complicated feeling is looking forward to the future to imagine how we’ll one day look back on the present with nostalgia. Psychologists call this experience anticipated nostalgia. Another way to describe it, as in…

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