The undoing hypothesis proposes that positive emotions serve to undo sympathetic arousal
related to negative emotions and stress. However, a recent qualitative review challenged the …

Research in affective science has shown that trait positive affect reduces the risk of
developing disease and is protective against the progression of certain diseases. Research …

Positive affect has been related to faster cardiovascular recovery from stress. Although the
family of positive affective states is diverse, no study examined whether high-approach …

Positive emotions are hypothesized to undo the cardiovascular aftereffects of negative
emotions. Study 1 tests this undoing effect. Participants (n= 170) experiencing anxiety …

Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is a fundamental component of emotional
responding. It is not clear, however, whether positive emotional states are associated with …

For many decades, the stress process was described primarily in terms of negative
emotions. However, robust evidence that positive emotions co-occurred with negative …

Recent ambulatory findings showing comparable cardiovascular effects of positive and
negative emotions are not consistent with the assumed etiological role of negative affect in …

Two studies tested the hypothesis that certain positive emotions speed recovery from the
cardiovascular sequelae of negative emotions. In Study 1, 60 subjects (Ss) viewed an initial …

Three pilot studies were performed to investigate the undoing-hypothesis (ie, fast
psychophysiological recovery due to positive emotions after stressor) in an athletic sample …

Assessing psychophysiological responses of emotion regulation is a cost-efficient way to
quantify emotion regulation and to complement subjective report that may be biased …