The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.

By Barbara L. Fredrickson. American Psychologist, 2001

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The role of affect and cognition on online consumers' decision to disclose personal information to unfamiliar online vendors (2011, result): “This finding corroborates the broaden-and-build theory that posits that negative emotions narrow one's momentary thought–action repertoire [30].”
An applied framework for Positive Education (2013, methodology): “In addition, there is consistent evidence that positive emotions are associated with broad, creative, and open-minded thinking whereas negative emotions restrict focus and narrow attention (Fredrickson, 2001; Fredrickson & Branigan, 2005).”
Resilience as the ability to bounce back from stress: A neglected personal resource? (2010, background): “This could also result in more time and energy for pursuing positive activities and engagements that can ‘broaden-and-build’ additional resources for improving coping and problem solving (Fredrickson, 2001).”
Work engagement and work-family facilitation: Making homes happier through positive affective spillover (2012, background): “Further support for this mediating hypothesis can be found in the tenets of affective events theory (Weiss and Cropanzano, 1996), broaden-and-build theory (Fredrickson, 2001), and spillover theory (Edwards and Rothbard, 2000).”
The mediating role of psychological capital in the supportive organizational climate—employee performance relationship (2008, background): “…physical (e.g., coordination, coping with stress, and cardiovascular health), and social (e.g., relationships, networks, and friends) resources, but it is also important to the theoretical understanding of PsyCap and what she calls psychological resources (Fredrickson, 2001; also see Isen, 1987).”
Teachers’ well-being and job satisfaction: the important role of positive emotions in the workplace (2021, background): “Researchers have used psychological theory (Fredrickson 2001) to argue that positive emotions exert influence on cognitive processing styles and work-related behaviour.”
You focus on the forest when you're in charge of the trees: power priming and abstract information processing. (2006, background): “Positive mood (e.g., Fredrickson, 2001) and approach tendencies (Friedman & Förster, 2000), among others, have also been linked to more abstract thinking.”
A longitudinal analysis of achievement goals: From affective antecedents to emotional effects and achievement outcomes. (2009, background): “These theorized relationships are consistent with cognitive theories suggesting that affect influences the way information is attended to and processed and, by extension, cognitive performance (Bless, 2000; Fredrickson, 2001; Levine & Burgess, 1997; Meinhardt & Pekrun, 2003; Pekrun et al., 2002).”
Gen Y customer loyalty in online shopping: An integrated model of trust, user experience and branding (2016, background): “Broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions purports that when people feel positive emotions, they become associated with greater feelings of ‘self-other’ overlap and “oneness” (Fredrickson, 2001; Fredrickson, Tugade, Waugh, & Larkin, 2003).”