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1. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleCheerfulness and life satisfaction mediated by self-esteem ...

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   Nov 1, 2020 · Cheerfulness is defined as a high prevalence of cheerful mood, the tendency to laugh easily and frequently (i.e., hilarity), a cheerful interaction style, and robust cheerful mood across different circumstances (Ruch, Köhler, & Van Thriel, 1996).

   • Author: Chloe Lau, Francesca Chiesi, Jennifer Hofmann, Willibald Ruch, Donald H. Saklofske

   • Publish Year: 2020

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   Cheerfulness denotes an individual’s actual (as a mood state) or habitual (as a trait or temperament) disposition for amusement and laughter including seeing the bright side of life and taking adversity less seriously.

   • Author: Willibald Ruch

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3. www.frontiersin.org › journals › psychologyEditorial: Humor and Laughter, Playfulness and Cheerfulness ...

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   Apr 8, 2019 · Playfulness is considered the basis of humor (a play with ideas), but not all play is humorous. Cheerfulness is considered the temperamental basis of good humor, a disposition for laughter and for keeping humor in face of adversity but it mostly overlaps with the socio-affective component of humor.

4. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesGood vibrations: A review of vocal expressions of positive ...

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   Jan 2, 2020 · For example, humans use certain vocalizations to induce fear in order to control other animals (McConnell, 1991) or human infants (Fernald, 1992). Such vocalizations are explicitly intended to alter the behaviour of the receiver. Both of these views see vocal expressions as communicative.

   • Author: Roza G. Kamiloğlu, Agneta H. Fischer, Disa A. Sauter
   • DOI: 10.3758/s13423-019-01701-x

   • Publish Year: 2020
   • Publication: Psychon Bull Rev. 2020; 27(2): 237-265.

5. completewellbeing.com › the-value-of-cheerfulnessThe value and importance of cheerfulness - Complete Wellbeing

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   Nov 26, 2012 · Science has even established that cheerful physicians are more effective than grumpy, serious doctors as patients respond better to them. Cheerfulness is the greatest lubricant of the wheels of life. It diminishes pain, fights disease, mitigates misfortunes, lightens burdens and eases one’s life.

6. magazine.hms.harvard.edu › articles › contagionThe Contagion of Happiness | Harvard Medicine Magazine

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   Medicine’s penchant for problem–solving means that most researchers have focused their efforts on studying causes of and treatments for gloomier sentiments like sadness, depression, and anxiety. The smiley–faced cheer of happiness seems less serious—and less potentially profitable—in comparison.

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   What does it mean to be a cheerful person?

   • According to Ruch, Köhler, and Van Thriel (1996), a cheerful person is defined as someone with a high prevalence of cheerful mood, who tends to laugh easily and frequently, and exhibits a cheerful interaction style. Cheerful mood is also robust across different circumstances.

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   Is cheerfulness a trait or a state?

   • Ruch, Köhler and van Thriel (1996, 1997) distinguished between trait cheerfulness (as affect-based temperament presumably with a genetic basis) and state cheerfulness (as a transient mood) and suggested that both are needed to account for individuals’ readiness for positive emotions and laughter.

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   How does a cheerful person contribute to quality of life?

   • Trait cheerfulness contributes to quality of life or overall well-being by enabling individuals to positive emotions and maintaining them in face of adversity, and longer lasting states of cheerfulness may be seen as element of well-being.

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   Does a cheerful person have a sense of humor?

   • The robustness of cheerful mood found among trait cheerful individuals suggests that trait cheerfulness and the “sense of humor” overlap conceptually. Indeed, cheerfulness as trait and state explains individual differences in readiness for amusement and predicts affect-based humor behavior like smile and laughter.

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   What did doctors think about cheerfulness?

   • Sixteenth and seventeenth century physicians, we learn, believed that “cheerful music,” exercise “which makes the blood a cheerful juice,” and “cheerful sights, agreeable to virtue and piety,” could counteract melancholy. Shakespeare’s tragedies, Hampton reveals, undercut idealism about cheerfulness as naiveté.

   The Social Psychology of Cheerfulness | Psychology Today

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   Is cheerfulness a personality?

   • Trait cheerfulness received theoretical and empirical attention by personality psychologists at the beginning of the last century. Meumann (1913) regarded cheerfulness as one of twelve basic temperaments equal to the well-known sanguine, choleric, or melancholic temperaments.

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8. www.psychologytoday.com › us › blogThe Social Psychology of Cheerfulness

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   May 24, 2022 · A moderate uptick in mood, cheerfulness is not nearly as intense as anger, joy, or depression. However, according to Timothy Hampton, it can constitute a fleeting force, with a capacity to manage...