Pleasure as a sign you can attend to something else: Placing positive feelings within a general model of affect

By C. Carver. Cognition & Emotion, 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Motivation and Personality: A Neuropsychological Perspective (2013, background): “Immediately following acquisition of reward, activation of PS may also be involved in shifting priorities, such that pursuit of the goal that led to PS activation is deprioritized in favor of some other goal which is farther from accomplishment (Carver, 2003).”
The nature of epistemic feelings (2014, background): “They do so by means of their valence, i.e., the subjective sense of positivity or negativity arising from the experience (Carver, 2003; Efklides, 2006; Russell, 2003).”
Happiness Unpacked: Positive Emotions Increase Life Satisfaction by Building Resilience (2009, background): “problem (Carver, 2003; Cosmides & Tooby, 2000), positive emo-”
How Emotion Shapes Behavior: Feedback, Anticipation, and Reflection, Rather Than Direct Causation (2007, positive): “An influential form of this idea has been developed by Carver and Scheier (1990, 1998; also Carver, 2003).”
Does Happiness Promote Career Success? Revisiting the Evidence (2018, background): “Positive emotionality is associated with approach-oriented behavior (Elliot & Thrash, 2002; Watson, Wiese, Vaidya, & Tellegen, 1999) such as entering novel situations, interacting with others, and pursuing new goals (Carver, 2003).”
Categorical and dimensional affect analysis in continuous input: Current trends and future directions (2013, background): “valenced emotions [79], postural leaning forwards and backwards in response to affective pictures [80], etc.”
Four-quadrant investigation of job-related affects and behaviours (2014, background): “, 1988) and also to the self-regulation models of Higgins (1997) and Carver and Scheier (1998) and the overall happiness framework of Warr (2007).”
Does Negative Affect Always Narrow and Positive Affect Always Broaden the Mind? Considering the Influence of Motivational Intensity on Cognitive Scope (2013, background): “Consistent with past proposals (Carver, 2003), the broadening of cognitive scope produced by positive affective states low in motivational intensity may assist the organism in considering several new goal opportunities that can be pursued.”
The motivational dimensional model of affect: Implications for breadth of attention, memory, and cognitive categorisation (2010, methodology): “Low approach positive affect may also induce an organism to ‘‘ease back’’ (Carver, 2003, p. 246) in order to conserve energy and resources following successful pre-goal pursuit. Carver (2003) predicted that, ‘‘people who exceed the criterion rate of progress (i.”
Personality and Subjective Well-Being (2009, background): “ences after the achievement of a goal may actually promote the desire to seek new goals (Carver, 2003; Fredrickson, 1998).”
Enhancing Creativity Through "Mindless" Work: A Framework of Workday Design (2006, background): “In a framework similar to Fredrickson’s, Carver (2003) has developed a model that treats positive feelings as an error signal in a cognitive feedback loop that directs incentive-seeking and threat-avoidance behaviors.”
Linking positive emotions and academic performance: The mediated role of academic psychological capital and academic engagement (2019, background): “That is, when students are in a positive mood, they are more likely to explore novel situations, interact with other people, have higher expectations about attaining academic-related goals, and pursue new goals (Carver 2003).”
After the pink slip: Applying dynamic motivation frameworks to the job search experience. (2012, background): “, Carver & White, 1994; Tamir & Diener, 2008). For example, Tamir and Diener (2008) suggested the inherent tendency of individuals high in approach motivation to meet goal-oriented situations with an appetitive rather than a defensive posture is conducive to well-being. In contrast, the tendency for”