How Positive Emotions Build Physical Health

By Bethany E. Kok, Kimberly A. Coffey, Michael A. Cohn, Lahnna I. Catalino, Tanya Vacharkulksemsuk, Sara B. Algoe, Mary M. Brantley, Barbara L. Fredrickson. Psychology Science, 2013

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Vagus Nerve as Modulator of the Brain–Gut Axis in Psychiatric and Inflammatory Disorders (2018, background): “on Depressive Symptoms It has been shown that self-generated positive emotions via loving-kindness meditation lead to an increase in positive emotions relative to the control group, an effect moderated by baseline vagal tone (135).”
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021, background): “The consequences of positive emotions for mental (Prinzing et al., in press), physical (Kok et al., 2013; Le Nguyen et al., 2019), and indeed public health (West et al., in press) are too great to overlook and serve to highlight the benefit of adopting a positive psychology approach in this time of…”
The relevance of self‐compassion as an intervention target in mood and anxiety disorders: A narrative review based on an emotion regulation framework (2017, background): “While high vmHRV is closely linked to the tendency to experience positive affect (Kok et al., 2013), low vmHRV is associated with anxiety disorders (Chalmers, Quintana, Abbott, & Kemp, 2014), depression vulnerability (Beevers et al.”
What’s Love Got to Do with It? A Longitudinal Study of the Culture of Companionate Love and Employee and Client Outcomes in a Long-term Care Setting (2014, background): “Positive affect has been associated with a plethora of positive health outcomes (Kok et al., 2013; see Lyubomirksy, King, and Diener, 2005, for a review), including in older populations (Ong, 2010).”
Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, background): “…that positive emotions can transform the lives of people for the better by building psychological resilience and triggering upward-spirals toward enhanced well-being, physical health, flourishing, and personal growth (e.g., Emmons & McCullough, 2003; Fredrickson & Joiner, 2002; Kok et al., 2013).”
Self-Compassion Interventions and Psychosocial Outcomes: a Meta-Analysis of RCTs (2019, background): “…(Finlay-Jones 2017), greater self-regulation (Kelly et al. 2010), physiological changes such as regulated heart rate (Kirby et al. 2017a, b), enhanced social connection (Kok et al. 2013), or perhaps a more cognitive mechanism such as advanced reappraisal skills that are core to CBT approaches.”
Collective Narcissism: Political Consequences of Investing Self‐Worth in the Ingroup’s Image (2019, background): “Particularly important is experiencing self-transcendent emotions, which helps regulate negative emotions and refine the physiological and neural mechanisms of emotional regulation (Kok et al., 2013; Stellar et al., 2015).”
The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience (2017, background): “The vagus nerve is activated during self-transcendent positive emotions like awe, compassion, gratitude, and love, suggesting a potential mechanism underlying STEs (Kok et al., 2013; Kok & Fredrickson, 2010; Porges, 2007; Thayer et al., 2012).”
The Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory: Extensions, Applications, and Challenges at the Attention–Appraisal–Emotion Interface (2015, background): “Furthermore, one of us has extensively studied constructive forms of meditation like lovingkindness (metta) practice (Fredrickson, Cohn, Coffey, Pek, & Finkel, 2008; Kok et al., 2013), which contain elements of mindfulness practice, often as a precursor to the imaginal and well-wishing stages of the”
An upward spiral: Bidirectional associations between positive affect and positive aspects of close relationships across the life span (2015, background): “L.G entzler/D evelopm entalReview 36 (2015) 58–104 Table 2 (continued) Study Study typea N Ageb Mechanism construct Mechanism assessment or manipulation PA construct PA assessment or manipulation Relationship construct Relationship assessment or manipulation Steptoe et al. (2012) O, C 7795 50 or old”