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- Title
What Good Are Positive Emotions?
- Authors
Fredrickson, Barbara L
- Abstract
This article opens by noting that positive emotions do not fit existing models of emotions. Consequently, a new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment, and love. This new model posits that these positive emotions serve to broaden an individual's momentary thought-action repertoire, which in turn has the effect of building that individual's physical, intellectual, and social resources. Empirical evidence to support this broaden-and-build model of positive emotions is reviewed, and implications for emotion regulation and health promotion are discussed.
- Publication
Review of general psychology : journal of Division 1, of the American Psychological Association, 1998, Vol 2, Issue 3, p300
- ISSN
1089-2680
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/1089-2680.2.3.300