What do you do when you're happy or blue? Mood, expectancies, and behavioral interest
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People experiencing positive emotions show increased preference for variety and broader arrays of behavioral interests.
“People experiencing positive emotions also show increased preference for variety and broader arrays of behavioral interests (Cunningham, 1988;Kahn & Isen, 1993).”
From The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions (2000) · cites this paper as Cunningham, 1988
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“, 2007; Wadlinger and Isaacowitz, 2006) and behavioral repertoire (Cunningham, 1988; Fredrickson and Branigan, 2005).”
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- Authors
- Cunningham, M. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Louisville (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cunningham, Michael R.
- Venue
- Motivation and Emotion
- Published
- 1988-12
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 309-331
- ISSN
- 0146-7239 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6644
- OpenAlex
- W2012498313
- Cited by
- 255
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 1.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Motivation and Emotion (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Keywords
- mood, outcome expectations, self-perceived ability, social behavior, prosocial behavior, leisure
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