Whether relative income or absolute income could affect subjective well-being has been a bone of contention for years. Life satisfaction and the relative frequency of positive and negative emotions are parts of subjective well-being. According to the prospect theory, hedonic adaptation helps to explain why positive emotion is often so hard to be maintained, and negative emotion wouldn't be easy...

In the field of emotion research, the influence of emotion regulation strategies on memory with emotional materials has been widely discussed in recent years. However, existing studies have focused exclusively on regulating negative emotion but not positive emotion. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the influence of emotion regulation strategies for positive emotion on memory. On...

Positive emotion typologies, that is, classifications of positive emotions into conceptually distinct categories or ‘types’ according to their properties, can clarify and simplify the complex structure space. In this review, we introduce three key evaluative criteria for such typologies: comprehensiveness, distinctiveness, granularity. Comprehensiveness is degree which typology accurately repre...

The purpose of this research is to understand achievement emotions resulting from performance feedback in a medical education context where 30 first and second year medical students learned to diagnose virtual patients in an intelligent tutoring system (ITS), BioWorld. We found that students could be organized into groups using cluster analyses based on the emotions they reported after receivin...

In recent years, the eastern part of China has suffered numerous large-scale continuous fog and haze, which seriously impact people’s production and life. In present research, a combination method of questionnaire and experiment is used to discuss whether the hazy weather could influence the emotion and if there are any impacts on the work efficiency. 2 (gender) × 3 (emotional type: positive, n...

This study extends previous research into the relations among attachment style, emotional experience, and emotional control. Questionnaire measures of these variables were completed by a broad sample of 238 married couples. Continuous measures of attachment showed that insecure attachment (low Comfort with closeness; high Anxiety over relationships) was related to greater control of emotion, re...

BACKGROUND Research has highlighted the importance of recovery as defined by the service user, and suggests a link to negative emotion, although little is known about the role of negative emotion in predicting subjective recovery. AIMS To investigate longitudinal predictors of variability in recovery scores with a focus on the role of negative emotion. METHOD Participants (n = 110) with exp...

Individuals with bipolar disorder experience emotion regulation difficulties, even during remission, but are able to effectively employ emotion regulation strategies when instructed. We hypothesized that this puzzling discrepancy might be due to their maladaptive emotion regulation choices. To test this hypothesis, we used a previously validated paradigm (Sheppes, Scheibe, Suri, & Gross, 2011; ...