Positive psychology and emotional management in the USA

[Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Positive emotions don't necessarily narrow people toward a specific action,
like negative emotions do. Positive emotions seem to broaden people's
repertoires of things they like to pursue. They broaden ways of thinking
beyond our regular baseline, and they accumulate. And that broadening allows
people to discover and learn new things. (...) When we are given permission
to focus on emotions, a new dimension of the human landscape just pops out.
If you pay attention to and track emotions, especially positive emotions, I
think that you capture a lot more information that will help you make
decisions."

- Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D, research psychologist, University of Michigan

Source: http://gmj.gallup.com/content/default.asp?ci=1177