Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources.
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Open hearts build lives: positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources.
B. L. Fredrickson's (1998, 2001) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions asserts that people's daily experiences of positive emotions compound over time to build a variety of consequential personal resources. The authors tested this build hypothesis in a field experiment with working adults (n = 139), half of whom were randomly-assigned to begin a practice of loving-kindness meditation. R...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1939-1315,0022-3514
DOI: 10.1037/a0013262