Resilient Individuals Use Positive Emotions to Bounce Back From Negative Emotional Experiences.

Resilient individuals use positive emotions to bounce back from negative emotional experiences.

Theory indicates that resilient individuals "bounce back" from stressful experiences quickly and effectively. Few studies, however, have provided empirical evidence for this theory. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (B. L. Fredrickson, 1998, 2001) is used as a framework for understanding psychological resilience. The authors used a multimethod approach in 3 studies to predict th...

Person-centred positive emotions, object-centred negative emotions: 2-year-olds generalize negative but not positive emotions across individuals.

Prior work suggests that young children do not generalize others' preferences to new individuals. We hypothesized (following Vaish et al., 2008, Psychol. Bull., 134, 383-403) that this may only hold for positive emotions, which inform the child about the person's attitude towards the object but not about the positivity of the object itself. It may not hold for negative emotions, which additiona...

How to bounce back from adversity.

Emotional Stress, Positive Emotions, and Psychophysiological Coherence

3 Chris, a 45-year-old business executive, had a family history of heart disease, and was feeling extremely stressed, fatigued, and generally in poor emotional health. A 24-hour heart rate variability analysis 1 revealed abnormally depressed activity in both branches of his autonomic nervous system, suggesting autonomic exhaustion ensuing from maladaptation to high stress levels. His heart rate...

Brainwaves Analysis of Positive and Negative Emotions

Emotions, is the generic term for various subjective cognitive experiences and a psychological and physiological synthesized state generates under a variety of perceptions, thoughts, and behaviours. In general, emotion can be categorized into Joyful, Angry, Protected, Sad, Surprised, Fear, Satisfied and Unconcerned eight types of positive-negative emotions. More subtle and delicate emotions inc...