The longstanding assumption has been that positive emotions and associated feelings are entirely adaptive. As a result, less scientific attention has been devoted to understanding the ways in which positive emotions might also be a source of dysfunction for our psychological health. However, the empirical tides have recently begun to change, and with it, a new wave of research has pointed to wa...

Background: The emotion dysregulation model by Mennin and Fresco considers the high comorbidity of generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder and pays special attention to their comorbidity. Additionally, due to the high comorbidity of social anxiety disorder as well as anxiety and mood disorders, this disorder was considered along with the last two disorders. This study aimed t...

Although positive emotion research has begun to flourish, the extremes and potential costs of positive emotion remain understudied. This is an ideal clinical model for studying the ways in which positive emotions are disrupted in bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme bouts of expansive and persistent positive feelings. This paper reviews recent experimental studies, sel...

Positive affect and emotion have become major topics in behavioral science, of growing importance basic applied research. A broad review the literature reveals multiple, theoretically distinct constructs associated with terms ‘positive affect’ emotion,’ sometimes conflated across this body work. This article differentiates three primary — subjectively pleasant affect; approach or appetitive mot...

Positive emotions are of great significance to people's daily life, such as human-computer/robot interaction. However, the structure extensive positive is not clear yet and effective standardized inducing materials containing many emotional categories possible lacking. Thus, this article aims establish a Chinese emotion database (CPED) (1) effectively elicit possible, (2) provide both subjectiv...

Maladaptive regulation of positive emotion has increasingly been associated with psychopathology. Little is known, however, about how individual strategies used to manage positive emotion predict concurrent emotional responding and prospective illness course across mood disorders. The present study examined the concurrent and prospective influence of amplification and dampening regulation strat...