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Culture and Awe: Understanding Awe as a Mixed Emotion
Recent work is establishing awe as an important positive emotion that offers physical and psychological benefits. However, early theorizing suggests that awe’s experience is often tinged with fear. How then, d...
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Open AccessContentment and Self-acceptance: Wellbeing Beyond Happiness
Contentment is an emotion felt when the present situation is perceived to be complete as it is. Six studies are presented showing the difference between contentment and other positive emotions, documenting con...
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Open AccessHigher emotional granularity relates to greater inferior frontal cortex cortical thickness in healthy, older adults
Individuals with high emotional granularity make fine-grained distinctions between their emotional experiences. To have greater emotional granularity, one must acquire rich conceptual knowledge of emotions and...
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Open AccessThe influences of daily experiences of awe on stress, somatic health, and well-being: a longitudinal study during COVID-19
In the present work, we used daily diary methodology to investigate the influence of awe on stress, somatic health (e.g., pain symptoms), and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. We recruited a sam...
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A Perfect Storm to Set the Stage for Ontological Exploration: Response to Commentaries on “Emotional Well-Being: What It Is and Why It Matters”
Our target article (Park et al., this issue) described the process of develo** a provisional conceptualization of emotional well-being (EWB). In that article, we considered strengths and gaps in current pers...
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Emotional Well-Being: What It Is and Why It Matters
Psychological aspects of well-being are increasingly recognized and studied as fundamental components of healthy human functioning. However, this body of work is fragmented, with many different conceptualizati...
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Deep learning reveals what vocal bursts express in different cultures
Human social life is rich with sighs, chuckles, shrieks and other emotional vocalizations, called ‘vocal bursts’. Nevertheless, the meaning of vocal bursts across cultures is only beginning to be understood. H...
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Open AccessCultural variability in appraisal patterns for nine positive emotions
Emotions result from evaluations of events, referred to as appraisals. Specific configurations of appraisals have been shown to characterize different emotions, with some variation occurring across cultures. H...
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The rise of affectivism
Research over the past decades has demonstrated the explanatory power of emotions, feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes when trying to understand and predict how we think and behave. In ...
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Sixteen facial expressions occur in similar contexts worldwide
Understanding the degree to which human facial expressions co-vary with specific social contexts across cultures is central to the theory that emotions enable adaptive responses to important challenges and opp...
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What Basic Emotion Theory Really Says for the Twenty-First Century Study of Emotion
Basic emotion theory (BET) has been, perhaps, the central narrative in the science of emotion. As Crivelli and Fridlund (J Nonverbal Behav 125:1–34, 2019, this issue) would have it, however, BET is ready to be pu...
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Emotional Expression: Advances in Basic Emotion Theory
In this article, we review recent developments in the study of emotional expression within a basic emotion framework. Dozens of new studies find that upwards of 20 emotions are signaled in multimodal and dynam...
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The primacy of categories in the recognition of 12 emotions in speech prosody across two cultures
Central to emotion science is the degree to which categories, such as Awe, or broader affective features, such as Valence, underlie the recognition of emotional expression. To explore the processes by which pe...
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Measuring Positive Emotions: an Examination of the Reliability and Structural Validity of Scores on the Seven Dispositional Positive Emotions Scales
The Dispositional Positive Emotions Scales (DPES) are seven separate research scales that measure joy, awe, amusement, pride, contentment, compassion, and love. Despite widespread use of these scales, no compr...
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Attuned to the positive? Awareness and responsiveness to others’ positive emotion experience and display
Positive emotions are implicated in affiliation and cooperation processes that are central to human social life. For this reason, we hypothesized that people should be highly aware of and responsive to the positi...
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Rose-colored glasses gone too far? Mania symptoms predict biased emotion experience and perception in couples
The present study investigated how symptoms of mania—associated with heightened and persistent positive emotion—influence emotion experience and perception during distressing social interactions, whereby the e...
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Open AccessGender and the Communication of Emotion Via Touch
We reanalyzed a data set consisting of a U.S. undergraduate sample (N = 212) from a previous study (Hertenstein et al. 2006a) that showed that touch communicates distinct emotions between humans. In the current r...
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Emotional Intuitions and Moral Play
Brosnan's research on chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys provides invaluable clues to unlocking the complex nature of human morality. Elaborating upon her claims, we explore the role of emotions in basic social ...
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Understanding Teasing: Lessons From Children With Autism
Teasing requires the ability to understand intention, nonliteral communication, pretense, and social context. Children with autism experience difficulty with such skills, and consequently, are expected to have...
