Re: Positive psychology and emotional management in the USA

[joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very true. Which makes me wonder about the left propensity for gloom.
The only radicals that speak of hope these days are the Zapatistas.
Wonder why?

Joanna

Jurriaan Bendien wrote:

> "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