Characteristics and consequences of co-experienced positive affect: Understanding the origins of social skills, social bonds, and caring, healthy communities

CL Brown, BL Fredrickson - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Co-experienced positive affective states have distinct characteristics from
intraindividual affective states.•Co-experienced positive affect is important for …

Intimate relationships and coronary heart disease: implications for risk, prevention, and patient management

TW Smith - Current Cardiology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Research and clinical services addressing psychosocial
aspects of coronary heart disease (CHD) typically emphasize individuals, focusing less on …

Does shared positivity make life more meaningful? Perceived positivity resonance is uniquely associated with perceived meaning in life.

M Prinzing, K Le Nguyen… - Journal of personality and …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Pleasantness and meaningfulness are sometimes seen as opposing pursuits. Yet past
research has found that the pursuit of meaning often leads to pleasure. In four longitudinal …

Staying 'in sync'with others during COVID-19: Perceived positivity resonance mediates cross-sectional and longitudinal links between trait resilience and mental …

MM Prinzing, J Zhou, TN West… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Shared positive emotions involving caring and synchrony–termed 'positivity resonance'–are
associated with mental health. We hypothesized that, during the COVID-19 pandemic …

Positivity resonance in long-term married couples: Multimodal characteristics and consequences for health and longevity.

JL Wells, CM Haase, ES Rothwell… - Journal of Personality …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract The Positivity Resonance Theory of coexperienced positive affect describes
moments of interpersonal connection characterized by shared positive affect, caring …

The goods in everyday love: Positivity resonance builds prosociality.

J Zhou, MM Prinzing, KD Le Nguyen, TN West… - Emotion, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The positivity resonance theory of coexperienced positive affect (Fredrickson, 2016)
identifies the emotion of love as a collective state. This state, termed positive resonance, is …

Beyond social withdrawal: new perspectives on the effects of inflammation on social behavior

KA Muscatell, TK Inagaki - Brain, behavior, & immunity-health, 2021 - Elsevier
Decades of research in animals and humans show that inflammation is an important
regulator of social behavior. While much research in this area has concluded that …

Empathic accuracy and shared depressive symptoms in close relationships

CL Brown, KJ Grimm, JL Wells… - Clinical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Empathic accuracy, the ability to accurately understand other people's emotions, is typically
viewed as beneficial for mental health. However, empathic accuracy may be problematic …

How the affective quality of social connections may contribute to public health: Prosocial tendencies account for the links between positivity resonance and behaviors …

TN West, K Le Nguyen, J Zhou, MM Prinzing, JL Wells… - Affective science, 2021 - Springer
Although behaviors such as handwashing, mask wearing, and social distancing are known
to limit viral spread, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals in the United States …

Resetting relationship trajectories: A reconceptualization of the relationship repair process

M Olekalns, BB Caza - Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Negative events within and outside of work can disrupt coworkers' relationships, triggering a
re‐evaluation of relationship quality. The subjective experience of these events–which we …