Some perspectives on positive affect and self-regulation.

By Alice M. Isen. 2000

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Understanding the potential of teachable moments: the case of smoking cessation. (2003, background): “…have been thought to signal safety and so decrease vigilant attention to an event, they also have been shown to expand and sharpen attention (Isen et al., 1991; Estrada et al., 1997; Fredrickson, 1998; Isen, 2000), which may increase systematic consideration of an event's meaning and significance.”
Retail therapy: A strategic effort to improve mood (2011, unknown): “…oneself from the negative event, and good moods are sustained by avoiding risky activities that might potentially dampen the positive feelings or result in losses (Isen, 2000; Larsen, 2000; Morris & Reilly, 1987; Tice & Bratslavsky, 2000; Tice & Wallace, 2000; Wegener, Petty, & Smith, 1995).”
In search of the unique aspects of hope: Pinning our hopes on positive emotions, future-oriented thinking, hard times, and other people (2002, background): “Although the exact role of positive affect in these studies is unclear, emerging evidence suggests that positive affect reverses tendencies to seek self-enhancement and affect maintenance at the expense of other goals (see Isen, 2000b; Tesser, 2000; Tesser & Cornell, 1991).”
Motives for the social sharing of an emotional experience (2015, background): “This difference most likely reflects the heightened creativity and broadened perspective that is observed when positive emotional memories are retrieved or, more generally, when participants are exposed to a positive mood induction (Fredrickson, 1998, 2001; Isen, 2000).”
Approach-Motivated Positive Affect Reduces Breadth of Attention (2008, background): “Much research over the past 20 years has found that positive affect broadens cognition and attention (e.g., Rowe, Hirsh, & Anderson, 2006; for reviews, see Fredrickson, 2001, and Isen, 2000).”
Social functioning in major depressive disorder. (2016, unknown): “Due to their failure to disengage from their own thoughts and feelings (Grimm et al., 2011; Isen, 2000), self-focused individuals with depressive symptoms might be perceived by friends as especially annoying and abrasive, leading to difficulties in interpersonal relationships (Schwartz-Mette and…”
GLOMOsys: A Systems Account of Global Versus Local Processing (2010, background): “Taking this further, research has established that positive moods can also improve performance in conceptual tasks such as creative thought and breadth of categorization (see Baas, De Dreu, & Nijstad, 2008; Isen, 2000; Isen, Daubman, & Nowicki, 1987).”
Emotion Regulation Across the Life Span: An Integrative Perspective Emphasizing Self-Regulation, Positive Affect, and Dyadic Processes (2003, background): “Because positive emotions are known to enhance flexible and creative thinking and broad-minded coping (Fredrickson, 2001; Fredrickson & Joiner, 2002; Isen, 1993, 2000b), some of their most important effects may occur in interaction with negative emotional states, as they prevent acute episodes of…”
Dispositional Optimism and the Emergence of Social Network Diversity (2012, background): “For instance, positive emotion is linked to enhanced problem-solving via the wideness of thought-action repertoires, as well as the propensity to seek out and integrate information across a variety of domains (Isen 2000).”
Affect and decision making: A hot topic (2006, background): “Incidental mood states also have been shown to motivate behavior as people tend to act to maintain or attain positive mood states (Isen, 2000).”
Shaping Environments Conductive to Creativity (2012, background): “Instead, they experience low levels of psychological ownership, avoid work activities, and tend to experience more negative affect—all of which are detrimental to creativity (Greguras and Diefendorf 2009; Isen 2000; Koestner et al. 2008; Millette and Gagné 2008).”
Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (2019, background): “Cognitive and behavioral processes participate in emotional reactions, but affective processes— both momentary and dispositional—influence how people think and act; how they remember, perceive, and interpret events; and how they ultimately behave (e.g., Erez & Isen, 2002; Forgas, 1995; Isen, 2000).”
Meaning in Life as a Subjective Judgment and a Lived Experience (2009, background): “In attempting to explain the adaptive nature of positive emotion, scholars have often looked beyond pleasure, to its attentional, motivational, and behavioral concomitants (e.g., Fredrickson, 1998; 2001; Isen, 2000).”
Impact of psychological capital on innovative performance and job stress (2015, background): “This theory further posits that positive emotions and orientations broaden people’s attention and focus as well as their patterns of thinking (Fredrickson, 2001; Isen, 2000; Kahn & Isen, 1993).”