Understanding the Processes that Regulate Positive Emotional Experience: Unsolved Problems and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring

By F. Bryant, Erica D. Chadwick, Katharina Kluwe. 2011

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In this paper, we focus on unanswered questions and future directions in positive psychology, with a special emphasis on savoring processes that regulate positive emotions. To advance our understanding of the savoring processes underlying positive experience, we highlight three unresolved issues that must be addressed: (1) discriminating the distinctive neuropsychological profiles associated with different savoring processes; (2) developing viable methods of measuring and analyzing the mediational mechanisms involved in real-time savoring; and (3) clarifying the developmental processes through which people acquire different strategies to savor positive experiences across the life span. We propose several potentially fruitful lines of attack aimed at addressing these unsolved problems, each of which requires new methods of assessment to advance theory and refine our conceptual understanding of savoring.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Remembered experiences and revisit intentions: A longitudinal study of safari park visitors (2016, background): “A potentially fruitful avenue for future work in this area is that of the theory of savouring (Bryant and Veroff, 2007; Bryant et al., 2011).”
• Why are people high in emotional intelligence happier? They make the most of their positive emotions (2017, background): “Theoreticalmodels suggest that positive emotions, just like negative emotions, can be upregulated (increased) and downregulated (decreased) (Bryant et al., 2011; Gross, 1998).”