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 ...

Leslie Becker-Phelps Ph.D. Making Change Positive Emotions; Building Blocks for Personal Growth Being genuinely positive helps people do better; you can, too! Posted Dec 20, 2010 ...

But we should not throw the positive emotion baby out with the positivity bathwater. There is, after all, mounting evidence that positive emotions are associated with a host of beneficial outcomes ...

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.

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 ...

While negative emotions often narrow focus and restrict the brain’s ability to take in context, positive feelings appear to create an optimal state for learning.

Journal Reference: 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 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 ...

More information: Positive Emotion Enhances Memory by Promoting Memory Reinstatement across Repeated Learning, JNeurosci (2025). DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0009-25.2025 ...

In a collaboration between Hangzhou Normal University and Nanjing Normal University, Xi Jia led a study to explore whether emotions shape how well people remember meaningless, or neutral, images.