Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience

By Mary Gersema. 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction in twenty-seven nations (2009, background): “Hedonism remains of interest to contemporary psychology in a new field (hedonic psychology; Kahneman, Diener, & Schwarz, 1999), and is embodied in discussions of how to savor pleasurable experiences (Bryant & Veroff, 2006).”
Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups (2014, background): “A Chinese proverb says, “Extreme happiness begets tragedy” (Bryant & Veroff, 2007, p. 39).”
The effect of positive work reflection during leisure time on affective well-being: Results from three diary studies (2016, background): “…does not address the moderating role of individual characteristics.5 Future research should examine the role of personality variables such as positive affectivity (Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1998) and trait savoring (Bryant & Veroff, 2007) on the relationship between work reflection and well-being.”
Happiness Through Vacationing: Just a Temporary Boost or Long-Term Benefits? (2011, background): “Individuals savor (Bryant and Veroff 2007) holidays through anticipating forthcoming trips.”
Determinants of Daily Happiness on Vacation (2011, background): “The posttrip/recollection phase of a holiday trip (Clawson and Knetsch 1966) involves savoring the holiday experience (Bryant and Veroff 2007), but such recollections are deemed somewhat unreliable (Braun-LaTour, Grinley, and Loftus 2006; Kemp, Burt, and Furneaux 2008).”
Integrating Mindfulness into Positive Psychology: a Randomised Controlled Trial of an Online Positive Mindfulness Program (2016, methodology): “Savouring allows us to voluntarily generate, intensify and prolong enjoyment and appreciation (Bryant and Veroff 2007).”
Interesting things and curious people: Exploration and engagement as transient states and enduring strengths. (2009, background): “This includes intentionally prolonging uncertainty because repetitive thoughts about what remains to be discovered are pleasurable (Bryant & Veroff, 2007; Wilson, Centerbar, Kermer, & Gilbert, 2005).”
Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction (2007, background): “2000), or even to pleasure through their effects on social relationships and the positive emotions that other people enable (Bryant & Veroff, 2006).”
Appreciation: a spiritual path to finding value and meaning in the workplace (2012, background): “Similarly, according to Bryant and Veroff (2007) three kinds of savoring, which is very close to our view of appreciation, can engage “spiritual connections to something outside oneself” (p. 193): thanksgiving, marveling and surrendering oneself to a person or group.”
Preferences for positive psychology exercises (2010, background): “This aims to increase savoring or an attempt to intensify or elongate the positive emotions of an experience through focused attention on the present moment (Bryant & Veroff, 2007).”
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010, background): “Appreciative attention — in the form of gratefulness, as well as “savoring” (Bryant & Veroff , 2006 ), in which one consciously attends to an activity’s enjoyment potential — is believed to impede adaptation to positive circumstances and events both directly and indirectly.”
Positive psychotherapy: A strength-based approach (2015, background): “A family tree of strengths is drawn up and discussed at a gathering 12 Savoring Savoring is discussed, along with techniques and strategies to safeguard against adaptation Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence, Gratitude Exercise: Savoring Activity: Clients plan a savoring activity using specific te”
Does savoring increase happiness? A daily diary study (2012, methodology): “Similarly, Bryant and Veroff (2007) have identified both amplifying and dampening savoring responses in their measure of people’s savoring strategies.”
Positive emotion regulation and well-being: Comparing the impact of eight savoring and dampening strategies (2010, background): “…our positive emotions can have a crucial impact on our well-being – savoring being beneficial while dampening detrimental (Bryant, 1989, 2003; Bryant & Veroff, 2007; Eisner, Johnson, & Carver, 2009; Gross, Richards, & John, 2006; Tugade & Fredrickson, 2007), little is known about the…”
Detecting and constructing meaning in life events (2009, background): “Research on more selfconscious processes associated with positive feelings, such as savoring (Bryant & Veroff, 2007) and nostalgia (Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt, & Routledge, 2006) indicates that positive life experiences may present untapped sources of meaning.”
Work engagement and work-family facilitation: Making homes happier through positive affective spillover (2012, background): “Extending the general notions of capitalization (Gable et al., 2004) and savoring (Bryant and Veroff, 2007) to work-family interactions, Ilies et al. (2011: 118) proposed the construct of work-family interpersonal capitalization, defined as ‘an active response to positive work events that involves…”
Understanding the Processes that Regulate Positive Emotional Experience: Unsolved Problems and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring (2011, methodology): “For example, the cognitive savoring strategy of ‚kill-joy thinking,‛ which stifles positive feelings, is more prevalent among East Asian adults than North American adults (Bryant & Veroff, 2007) and serves to regulate positive emotions in ways that are culturally normative.”