Good News! Capitalizing on Positive Events in an Interpersonal Context

By Shelly L. Gable, H. T. Reis. 2010

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Empathizing With Others’ Pain Versus Empathizing With Others’ Joy: Examining the Separability of Positive and Negative Empathy and Their Relation to Different Types of Social Behaviors and Social Emotions (2015, background): “Existing work in this area suggests that relationships benefit from ‘‘capitalization,’’ where relationship partners actively share in one another’s positive outcomes and emotions (e.g., Gable & Reis, 2010).”
Empathy for Animals: A Review of the Existing Literature (2018, background): “Similar to negative empathy, research on positive empathy among humans suggests that people are more likely to feel positive empathy for individuals with whom they have a close relationship (Gable and Reis 2010).”
Interpersonal emotion regulation. (2013, background): “In fact, social sharing ranks among the most prevalent responses to emotional events, regardless of whether those events are positive or traumatic (Gable & Reis, 2010; Stiles, 1987), consequential or trivial (Reis et al., 2010), and measured retrospectively or induced experimentally (Rimé, 2009).”
An applied framework for Positive Education (2013, background): “ACR refers to responding to others’ good news with authentic, active and supportive interest in order to build strong relationships (Gable & Reis, 2010).”
Interpersonal instrumental emotion regulation (2015, background): “Hedonic interpersonal emotion regulation Most of the available evidence for interpersonal emotion regulation involves cases in which people try to increase pleasant emotions (e.g., Gable & Reis, 2010) or decrease unpleasant emotions (e.g., Rimé, 2007) in the other.”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “…& Gruen, 1986; Rimé, Mesquita, Boca, & Philippot, 1991; Taylor et al., 2000) or experiencing happiness (Gable & 3 Gable and colleagues (e.g., Gable & Reis, 2010) used the term capitalization to describe targets’ attempts to maximize positive emotion (e.g., after receiving good news) by…”
Toward a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Friendship and Happiness: Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts, Feelings of Mattering, and Satisfaction of Basic Psychological Needs in Same-Sex Best Friendships as Predictors of Happiness (2012, background): “, promoting closeness) and have the potential to contribute to one’s psychological well-being (Marshall 2001; Gable and Reis 2010).”
Loneliness: Clinical Import and Interventions (2015, background): “…as possibly faulty hypotheses that need to be verified, whereas faulty behavioral confirmation processes could be targeted by training in mindfulness (Baer, 2003; Creswell et al., 2014) and capitalization (sharing good times; Gable & Reis, 2010; Woods, Lambert, Brown, Fincham, & May, 2014).”
New Look at Social Support: A Theoretical Perspective on Thriving through Relationships (2014, background): “Supporting capitalization (Gable & Reis, 2010)—by celebrating successes and accomplishments along the way—is another important part of the launching function that should encourage persistence and continued engagement in opportunities for growth.”
The function of self-disclosure on social network sites: Not only intimate, but also positive and entertaining self-disclosures increase the feeling of connection (2015, background): “Based on research on capitalization effects (Gable & Reis, 2010), it is hypothesized that sharing positive events also increases the feeling of connection.”
The Emerging Study of Positive Empathy (2015, background): “It also correlated positively with related constructs such as negative empathy (i.e., empathic concern), perspective-taking, general positive affect, extraversion, and agreeableness (all r ’ s > .30).”
Does savoring increase happiness? A daily diary study (2012, background): “Gable and Reis (2010) have highlighted two reasons individuals’ responses to positive events are important and worth examining:”
An upward spiral: Bidirectional associations between positive affect and positive aspects of close relationships across the life span (2015, background): “Capitalizing, or sharing positive events with others, is an interpersonal strategy for up-regulating positive emotion that most often occurs in the context of close relationships (see Gable & Reis, 2010 for a review).”
Motives for the social sharing of an emotional experience (2015, background): “Overall, emotional episodes are subject to social sharing conversations in 80% to 95% of the cases, a figure that comes close to those reported for the sharing of positive emotions in recent capitalization studies (Gable & Reis, 2010, pp. 215–216).”