The rapid growth of the literature on positive interventions to increase “happiness” has
suggested the need for an overarching conceptual framework to integrate the many and …

The determinants of affect proposed by the appraisal theory, the goal-directed theory, and
the predictive processing theory are compared. The first theory attaches a role to multiple …

Delphi is an established information gathering and forecasting approach that has proven to
deliver valuable results in a wide variety of specialist fields. Yet, Delphi studies have also …

From the 1950s onward, psychologists have generally assumed that people possess a
general need for cognitive consistency, whose frustration by an inconsistency elicits …

How are people and communities able to prevail despite challenge? What helps them
bounce back from adversity and even grow in knowledge and understanding? And can this …

Research suggests that optimism feels good. However, does it always feel good? We
suggest that the benefits (and costs) of optimism and pessimism depend on their timing. A …

Mindfulness has been hypothesized to directly facilitate well-being, and to indirectly do so by
enhancing self-regulated functioning. No prior research has examined these relationships in …

Scientists increasingly apply concepts from reinforcement learning to affect, but which
concepts should apply? And what can their application reveal that we cannot know from …

Research on affective forecasting shows that people have a robust tendency to overestimate
the intensity of future emotion. We hypothesized that (a) people can accurately predict the …

Purpose This study investigated the influence of teachers on undergraduate students'
development of research aspirations and the mechanisms behind this process …