Turning lemonade into lemons: Dampening appraisals reduce positive affect and increase negative affect during positive activity scheduling

Turning manuscript rejection "lemons" into "lemonade".

Evaluation of Positive and Negative Affect Induction on the Regional Brain Activity and Personality Traits

Objective: The present study aims to investigate the effect of emotions (negative and positive affects) and gender on the activity of different brain regions and their relationship with personality traits of extraversion, introversion, neuroticism, and stability. Methods: The study participants were 33 right-handed volunteer undergraduate students (17 males and 16 females). Our stimuli were tw...

Positive Affect, Negative Affect, and Social Interaction

Two studies explored the relations of positive and negative affect (PA and NA) to social interaction. In Study 1, unacquainted dyads were surreptitiously videotaped as they participated in a 6-min interaction. Participants then evaluated the quality of the interaction. Independent observers also rated the videotaped interactions. Trait PA was positively related to both participant and observer ...

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Turning the pink cloud grey: dampening of positive affect predicts postpartum depressive symptoms.

OBJECTIVE Maladaptive response styles to negative affect have been shown to be associated with prospective (postpartum) depression. Whether maladaptive styles to positive affect are also critically involved is understudied, even though anhedonia (a correlate of low positive affectivity) is a cardinal symptom of depression. The present study is the first to investigate the predictive value of co...