Can Feeling Too Good Be Bad?

By J. Gruber. 2011

204 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5ff7427d6ae4890c7b48cc85bd3d0c6c2b37b29f

Citations in the corpus

• Don’t Worry, Be Sad! On the Cognitive, Motivational, and Interpersonal Benefits of Negative Mood (2013, unknown): “More generally, these results suggest that the unrelenting pursuit of happiness may often be self-defeating (Gruber, 2011; Whippman, 2012), and a more balanced assessment of the costs and benefits of positive and negative affect is long overdue in professional practice and in popular culture as…”
• Sexual Frequency Predicts Greater Well-Being, But More is Not Always Better (2016, unknown): “For example, although happiness is associated with several benefits, including better health and greater social connection, extremely elevated positive emotions can have negative consequences (Gruber, 2011), and high levels of happiness valuation can actually lead to less happiness (Mauss et al.”