"Can seeking happiness make people unhappy? Paradoxical effects of valuing happiness": Correction to Mauss, Tamir, Anderson, and Savino (2011).
By Iris B. Mauss, Maya Tamir, Craig L. Anderson, N. Savino. 2011
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Subfields: Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Why Beliefs About Emotion Matter: An Emotion-Regulation Perspective (2018, unknown): “emotion induction compared to control participants (Mauss et al., 2011).”
- Second Wave Positive Psychology: Exploring the Positive–Negative Dialectics of Wellbeing (2016, result): “…and Scheier’s (1990) cybernetic self-regulation theory, in which dysphoria results from discrepancy between expectations and reality; yearning for happiness serves to widen this discrepancy, thus increasing dissatisfaction (a theory corroborated by empirical studies; e.g., Mauss et al. 2011).”
- Sexual Frequency Predicts Greater Well-Being, But More is Not Always Better (2016, unknown): “…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., 2011).”
- Why Do People Regulate Their Emotions? A Taxonomy of Motives in Emotion Regulation (2016, background): “Difficulty in monitoring progress toward goals, in turn, can have negative consequences (Liberman & Dar, 2009; Mauss et al., 2011).”
- What Is the Optimal Way to Deliver a Positive Activity Intervention? The Case of Writing About One’s Best Possible Selves (2012, background): “Recent research has suggested that valuing happiness too much may be detrimental to well-being (Mauss et al. 2011).”
- The how, why, what, when, and who of happiness: Mechanisms underlying the success of positive activity interventions. (2014, background): “Participants led to value happiness actually experienced less happiness from a positive video clip than participants who read an affectively neutral news clip (Mauss et al., 2011; Study 2).”