Positive Emotions Broaden and Build

By Barbara L. Fredrickson. 2012

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Willingness to communicate in the L2 about meaningful photos: Application of the pyramid model of WTC (2021, background): “Emotion theory suggests that negative emotions restrict attention and positive emotions broaden one’s thoughts and action repertoire (Fredrickson, 2013; MacIntyre & Gregersen, 2012).”
Enjoyment and anxiety in second language communication: An idiodynamic approach (2018, background): “The theory proposes three specific effects of positive emotions: They broaden our thought-action repertoires, they build resources for the future, and they undo the undesirable effects of negative emotions (Fredrickson, 2013).”
Why are people high in emotional intelligence happier? They make the most of their positive emotions (2017, background): “…emotions have the power to undo the effect of negative emotions (Fredrickson & Levenson, 1998; Fredrickson, Mancuso, Branigan, & Tugade, 2000) and that by broadening thought–action repertoires they help to build consequential physical, psychological and social resources (Fredrickson, 2013).”
The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation (2017, background): “Negative emotions tend to narrowly focus our energy stores on minimizing the aversive experience (e.g. Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007; Fredrickson, 2013).”
Well-Being, Personal Success and Business Performance Among Entrepreneurs: A Two-Wave Study (2018, background): “Firstly, positive emotions broaden peoples’ ‘thought-action repertoires’ which in Well-Being, Personal Success and Business Performance Among… itself serve to build lasting personal resources (Fredrickson 2001, 2013).”
Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Research Agenda (2018, background): “The broadening of thought repertoires (Fredrickson, 2013) and increased psychological resources (Hobfoll, 2001) associated with MWB seem to also enable more perspective taking.”
Within-Person Variability in Job Performance (2014, background): “Fredrickson (2003, 2013) has contended that in contrast to negative affect, positive affect broadens a person’s “momentary thought-action repertoires” by increasing receptivity to new information and enhancing the scope of attention.”
Beyond Math Anxiety: Positive Emotions Predict Mathematics Achievement, Self-Regulation, and Self-Efficacy (2016, neutral): “(Fredrickson 2013; Lyubomirsky et al. 2005).”
The Predictive Power of Multicultural Personality Traits, Learner and Teacher Variables on Foreign Language Enjoyment and Anxiety (2019, background): “Recent developments in emotion theory suggest that positive emotions (such as enjoyment) and negative emotions (such as anxiety) have different functions and arise from different types of experiences (Fredrickson, 2013; MacIntyre & Gregersen, 2012a, b).”
Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation (2015, background): “The affective science of happiness (e.g., Fredrickson, 2013) therefore seems to offer two major principles for promoting upward spirals of stress resilience and positive change.”
The good of boredom (2018, neutral): “Furthermore, boredom promotes the pursuit of interest, and the experience of interest leads to openness to new situations and activities (Cohn et al., 2009; Fredrickson, 2013; cf. Bench & Lench, 2013).”
Functions of Positive Emotions: Gratitude as a Motivator of Self-Improvement and Positive Change (2017, background): “Research on affective experience has identified at least 12 representative positive emotions: joy, love, gratitude, admiration, elevation, awe, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, and inspiration (Algoe & Haidt, 2009; Fredrickson, 2013).”
How Psychological Capital Mediates Between Study–Related Positive Emotions and Academic Performance (2019, background): “That is, under the influence of positive emotions, people have greater perceptual access, wider semantic reach, more inclusive and connected social perceptions, and more relaxed and expansive bodily behaviour (Fredrikson 2013).”