A Provisional Taxonomy of Subjectively Experienced Positive Emotions.

ABSTRACT: Over the past two decades, scholars have conducted studies on the subjective experience of over 30 positive emotional states (see Weidman, Steckler, & Tracy, 2017). Yet, evidence from research on the non-verbal expression and biological correlates of positive emotions suggests that people likely experience far fewer than 30 distinct positive emotions. The present research provided an initial, lexically driven examination of how many, and which, positive emotions cohere as distinct subjective experiences, at both the state and trait levels. Four studies (including two pre-registered replications) using factor and network analyses of 5939 participants' emotional experiences, elicited through the relived emotions task, found consistent evidence for nine distinct positive emotion states and fi

SUBMITTER: Weidman AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9382948 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature