Positive emotions in early life and longevity: findings from the nun study.

By Deborah D. Danner, D. Snowdon, Wallace V. Friesen. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, General Health Professions

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The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. (2001, neutral): “But a strong association was found between positive emotional content and mortality: those nuns who expressed the most positive emotions lived on average 10 years longer than those who expressed the least positive emotions (Danner et al. 2001).”
Positive Thinking in Coping with Stress and Health outcomes: Literature Review (2010, background): “The researcher estimated that nuns who had positive thinking lived an average of 10 years longer (Danner et al., 2001).”
Personality and the prediction of consequential outcomes. (2006, background): “With regard to longevity, studies show that positive emotionality (extraversion) and conscientiousness predict longer lives (Danner et al. 2001, Friedman et al. 1995), and hostility (low agreeableness) predicts poorer physical health (e.g., cardiovascular illness) and earlier mortality (Miller et…”
Psychological resilience and positive emotional granularity: examining the benefits of positive emotions on coping and health. (2004, background): “For example, the positive emotional content in the autobiographies of nuns in early adulthood predicted the likelihood of being alive 6 decades later ( Danner, Snowdon, & Friesen, 2001 ).”
Understanding the Effect of Gender and Stance in Opinion Expression in Debates on “Abortion” (2018, background): “Although we observe that 8p < 0.0001 for CON-FEMALE and PRO-MALE, p < 0.05 for PRO-FEMALE. female uses more affect and sentiment words in some cases as also found by Danner et al. (2001), the usage of affect and sentiment words changes depending on the stance.”
The benefits of frequent positive affect: does happiness lead to success? (2005, positive): “…some crosssectional and longitudinal studies show significant effects of positive affect, but not negative affect—for example, on mortality risk in the nun study (Danner et al., 2001), on likelihood of developing a cold (Cohen et al., 2003), or on organizational citizenship (Credé et al., 2005).”
Gender Differences in Language Use: An Analysis of 14,000 Text Samples (2008, result): “Reflecting the mixed bag of earlier work on emotional references, women use more affect words, but this was not restricted to positive emotions, as one earlier study suggested (Danner et al., 2001).”
Nostalgia: content, triggers, functions. (2006, background): “Danner, Snowdon, and Friesen (2001), for instance, coded the emotional content of brief autobiographical sketches written by Catholic nuns (ages 75-95) at the time they entered their convent in early adulthood.”
Positive affectivity predicts successful and unsuccessful adaptation to stress (2013, background): “Research in positive psychology has demonstrated that positive affectivity plays a significant role in predicting whether an individual will successfully or unsuccessfully adapt to stressful situations (Danner et al. 2001; Duckworth et al. 2009; Lyubomirsky et al. 2005).”
Resident Attitudes to Tourism and Their Effect on Subjective Well-Being (2012, background): “Happy people live longer (Danner, Snowdon, and Friesen 2001), have more satisfying relationships (Lyubomirksy and King 2005), and are in better health as happiness protects against becoming ill (Veenhoven 2008).”
Happiness in the Perspective of Evolutionary Psychology (2002, background): “The idea that a positive mood can improve fitness, and thus offer a biological advantage, is substantiated by a reported correlation between positive emotions (as assessed by analysing autobiographic texts written by nuns in early life) and longevity (Danner et al., 2001).”