Positive emotions, positive feelings and health: A life philosophy

Corrigendum: How Positive Emotions Build Physical Health

Kok, B. E., Coffey, K. A., Cohn, M. A., Catalino, L. I., Vacharkulksemsuk, T., Algoe, S. B., . . . Fredrickson, B. L. (2013). How positive emotions build physical health: Perceived positive social connections account for the upward spiral between positive emotions and vagal tone. Psychological Science, 24, 1123-1132. (Original DOI: 10.1177/0956797612470827).

A Cross-Cultural Study about Positive and Negative Emotions and Its Relation to Health and Well-being

The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.

In this article, the author describes a new theoretical perspective on positive emotions and situates this new perspective within the emerging field of positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory posits that experiences of positive emotions broaden people's momentary thought-action repertoires, which in turn serves to build their enduring personal resources, ranging from physical and inte...

Regulating positive and negative emotions in daily life.

The present study examined how people regulate their emotions in daily life and how such regulation is related to their daily affective experience and psychological adjustment. Each day for an average of 3 weeks, participants described how they had regulated their emotions in terms of the reappraisal and suppression (inhibiting the expression) of positive and negative emotions, and they describ...

On Studying Positive Emotions

Fredrickson (2000) presents a provocative new model of the function of positive emotions. The originality and significance of her approach lies in the implications of the broaden-and-build model for the study of optimal human functioning. That is, Fredrickson makes a persuasive case that learning how to cultivate positive emotions will ultimately advance knowledge of how to enhance health, resi...