Don’t Worry, Be Sad! On the Cognitive, Motivational, and Interpersonal Benefits of Negative Mood

By Joseph P. Forgas. 2013

165 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/353f16ee4c767c8c5d840d2464c96354fd26ddd9

Citations in the corpus

• Human language reveals a universal positivity bias (2014, unknown): “4) or diminishes the salience of negative states (26).”
• Negative emotions in tourism: a meaningful analysis (2019, unknown): “Indeed, numerous experiments show that negative feelings can have positive cognitive and behavioural consequences, such as strengthening of relationships (Graham, Huang, Clark, & Helgeson, 2008), improved motivation, improved memory performance and reduction in judgmental errors (Forgas, 2013).”