Psychology in general, and positive psychology in particular, are different from all other sciences. Because every human has personal experience with psychological concepts—emotions, motivation ...

By actively working to foster these emotions, you can navigate life’s ups and downs with greater ease and maintain a more positive outlook, no matter what comes your way.

The researchers asked 175 middle-age adults to keep a daily log of their emotional experiences for a month by recording how often and how strongly they experienced each of 32 different emotions ...

Over the course of the study, roughly 100 adult participants played a short guessing game and answered questions about their emotions when prompted by a smartphone over a 10-day period. The ...

Having a bad attitude can kill you. That’s the upshot of a large body of scientific research which suggests that negative emotions are connected to developing cardiovascular disease. But can positive ...

A. D. Ong. Pathways Linking Positive Emotion and Health in Later Life. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2010; 19 (6): 358 DOI: 10.1177/0963721410388805 ...

Positive and negative emotions are not an “either or.” They can coexist. I can be very grateful for things in my world and also very sad about some of the things in my world.

With all that’s happening, it’s easy to become overwhelmed with the negativity in the world. Our emotional state is important at work. Positive emotions transform our minds and increase our ability to ...

Positive emotions are often seen as critical aspects of healthy living, but new research suggests that the link between emotion and health outcomes may vary by cultural context. The findings show ...