While trait positive emotionality and state positive-valence affect have long been the subject
of intense study, the importance of differentiating among several “discrete” positive emotions …

Lay intuitions suggest that the ability to share, celebrate, and enjoy others' positive emotions–
a phenomenon we term positive empathy–bolsters individual well‐being and relationship …

Awe has been theorized as a collective emotion, one that enables individuals to integrate
into social collectives. In keeping with this theorizing, we propose that awe diminishes the …

Purpose Online health communities (OHCs) have become increasingly popular sources of
health information in recent years. However, little is known about the factors that affect the …

Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves
multiple purposes, and although there is a sizable and expanding research literature on the …

Emotional signals are crucial for sharing important information, with conspecifics, for
example, to warn humans of danger. Humans use a range of different cues to communicate …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

Emotional suppression has been associated with generally negative social consequences
(Butler et al., 2003; Gross & John, 2003). A cultural perspective suggests, however, that …

Awe has been defined as an emotional response to perceptually vast stimuli that overwhelm
current mental structures, yet facilitate attempts at accommodation. Four studies are …

Although theorists have proposed the existence of multiple distinct varieties of positive
emotion, dispositional positive affect is typically treated as a unidimensional variable in …