TY - JOUR
T1 - What is shared, what is different? Core relational themes and expressive displays of eight positive emotions
AU - Campos, Belinda
AU - Shiota, Michelle
AU - Keltner, Dacher
AU - Gonzaga, Gian C.
AU - Goetz, Jennifer L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to: Belinda Campos, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, 3151 Social Science Plaza A, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-5100, USA. E-mail: bcampos@uci.edu Portions of this work were completed while Belinda Campos was a graduate student at UC Berkeley supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a UC Berkeley Graduate Opportunity Fellowship and a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA supported by NIMH training grant MH15750 and the UCLA Center for the Everyday Lives of Families. Portions of this research were presented at a 2003 conference at the New York Academy of Sciences. The first two authors contributed equally to this work.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Understanding positive emotions' shared and differentiating features can yield valuable insight into the structure of positive emotion space and identify emotion states, or aspects of emotion states, that are most relevant for particular psychological processes and outcomes. We report two studies that examined core relational themes (Study 1) and expressive displays (Study 2) for eight positive emotion constructs-amusement, awe, contentment, gratitude, interest, joy, love, and pride. Across studies, all eight emotions shared one quality: high positive valence. Distinctive core relational theme and expressive display patterns were found for four emotions-amusement, awe, interest, and pride. Gratitude was associated with a distinct core relational theme but not an expressive display. Joy and love were each associated with a distinct expressive display but their core relational themes also characterised pride and gratitude, respectively. Contentment was associated with a distinct expressive display but not a core relational theme. The implications of this work for the study of positive emotion are discussed.
AB - Understanding positive emotions' shared and differentiating features can yield valuable insight into the structure of positive emotion space and identify emotion states, or aspects of emotion states, that are most relevant for particular psychological processes and outcomes. We report two studies that examined core relational themes (Study 1) and expressive displays (Study 2) for eight positive emotion constructs-amusement, awe, contentment, gratitude, interest, joy, love, and pride. Across studies, all eight emotions shared one quality: high positive valence. Distinctive core relational theme and expressive display patterns were found for four emotions-amusement, awe, interest, and pride. Gratitude was associated with a distinct core relational theme but not an expressive display. Joy and love were each associated with a distinct expressive display but their core relational themes also characterised pride and gratitude, respectively. Contentment was associated with a distinct expressive display but not a core relational theme. The implications of this work for the study of positive emotion are discussed.
KW - Appraisal
KW - Core relational theme
KW - Differentiation
KW - Expressive display
KW - Positive emotion
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U2 - 10.1080/02699931.2012.683852
DO - 10.1080/02699931.2012.683852
M3 - Article
C2 - 22716231
AN - SCOPUS:84874334070
SN - 0269-9931
VL - 27
SP - 37
EP - 52
JO - Cognition and Emotion
JF - Cognition and Emotion
IS - 1
ER -