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- We don’t have to feel good all the time to experience life as meaningful and fulfilling. Ups and downs, positive and negative emotions, are part of life. The term eudaimonic well-being relates to resilience and experiencing life as meaningful or purposeful.
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Sep 22, 2021 · We make health choices everyday. As adults, we know right from wrong, but that doesn’t guarantee that we take great care of our bodies. We indulge in behaviors that, in the moment, can feel...
Jan 10, 2019 · The researchers found that people may be happier when they feel the emotions they desire, regardless of whether those desired emotions were pleasant or unpleasant.
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- When You’Re Empathizing with Suffering
- Should We Give Up on Feeling good?
Research suggests that positive feelings can help us be more productive at work overall and more adept at creative tasks, particularly those that involve brainstorming responses and ideas. But a positive mood isn’t conducive to the best performance on certain analytical tasks. In a 1989 study, researchers induced a positive mood in half the partici...
Cognitive psychologists classify stereotyping as a form of “heuristic processing”: using general knowledge about a group to efficiently make predictions about individual members. In this sense, stereotyping is a kind of superficial thinking—and people in a good mood may be prone to it. In a 1994 study, participants were asked to make judgments abou...
The 2000 study also found that feel-good participants were prone to applying European-American names to politicians—a (theoretically) positive bias. If feeling good inclines us to see certain people in a positive light, does that mean it might make us more likely to be manipulated? Maybe. In a 2008 study, nearly 120 students were induced to feel am...
In some cases, feeling good may also compromise our morality. In a 2013 study, 90 students were induced to either feel positive or neutral by watching clips from a cartoon or something resembling a screensaver. Then, they were instructed to complete a crossword-puzzle-type task, grade their own work with an answer sheet, and compensate themselves 5...
Research suggests that being happier in general makes us kinder and more generous. But people who try to feel good all the time, at all costs, can miss some opportunities to connect with others. A 2014 study, for example, found that positive people less accurately empathize with certain negative emotions. Over 120 young adults watched four videos, ...
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Jul 5, 2022 · Happiness. Why You Don’t Have to Be Happy to Feel Good. New research questions the role of happiness vs. satisfaction in well-being. Posted July 5, 2022 | Reviewed by Vanessa Lancaster. Key...
Jul 8, 2020 · Accordingly, we propose a framework for understanding emotions, first classifying them along two independent dimensions: “feel good”–“feel bad” and “do good”–“do bad.”
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- 2020
Feb 2, 2022 · We don’t have to feel good all the time to experience life as meaningful and fulfilling. Ups and downs, positive and negative emotions, are part of life.
Jul 2, 2021 · Everyone wishes they could feel good all the time, but simply feeling good is often easier said than done. Luckily, you can use a few natural mind and body “hacks” to more easily and...
