A growing body of research unveils the ubiquity of ambivalence—the simultaneous
experience of positive and negative emotional or cognitive orientations toward a person …

The following article presents the theoretical model of strength and vulnerability integration
(SAVI) to explain factors that influence emotion regulation and emotional well-being across …

Recent evidence suggests that emotional well-being improves from early adulthood to old
age. This study used experience-sampling to examine the developmental course of …

In 3 studies, the authors investigated the functional role of psychological resilience and
positive emotions in the stress process. Studies 1a and 1b explored naturally occurring daily …

We conducted an integrative data analysis to examine the hedonic character of nostalgia.
We combined positive and negative affect measures from 41 experiments manipulating …

The study of intraindividual variability is the study of fluctuations, oscillations, adaptations,
and “noise” in behavioral outcomes that manifest on microtime scales. This article provides a …

Historically, resilience research has been largely the purview of developmental investigators
dealing with early childhood and adolescence. This research primarily focused on at‐risk …

The idea that people can experience two oppositely valenced emotions has been
controversial ever since early attempts to investigate the construct of mixed emotions. This …

Imagine someone who is “emotionally complex,” and a number of characteristics might
come to mind: the ability to see the good and the bad in all things; the ability to describe …

Anger is commonly associated with aggression. Inefficient anger-coping strategies increase
negative affect and deplete the regulatory resources needed to control aggressive impulses …