PSY336H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Psychological Resilience, Adobe After Effects, Barbara Fredrickson
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The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. Emotions = multicomponent response tendencies that unfold over relatively short time spans. Typically, an emotion begins with an individual"s assessment of the personal meaning of some antecedent event: appraisal process may be either conscious or unconscious, triggers a cascade of response tendencies. Affect, a more general concept, refers to consciously accessible feelings. Positive affect, facilitates approach behavior or continued action. Perspectives on the functions of affect and emotions. Free-floating positive moods motivate people to continue along any line of thinking or action that they have initiated. Functional accounts of positive emotions that emphasize tendencies to approach or continue may only capture the lowest common denominator across all affective states that share a pleasant subjective feel. Action tendencies identified for positive emotions are notably vague and underspecified. View centered on specific action tendencies yields an incomplete analysis of the function of positive emotions.
