In: Psychology
Purpose: Connect and critique Fredrickson’s theory in personal experience.
1.List the four ways that positive emotions may help build personal resources and give an example of each from your own experience. That is, can you verify each of the four “building resources” effects of positive emotions in your experience?
2. Can you think of a counter-example to her theory? That is, a negative effect of a positive emotion?
Friedrickson's Theory of positive emotions namely Broadened and Build Theory is about positive emotions like happiness, enjoyment, blissfulness, love which broadens the awareness in oneself and the motivation to live positive Life and with time this positive behavior will build skills, assets and ability to remain think positive. The position emotions are induced in the behaviour of the person overtime.
1. Hopefullness, optimism, resilience building skills, mindfulness. Through the act of kindness , helping people in advertisity, practising boro social behaviour , or listening / reading words of wisdom .
2. Eg - Joy is a positive emotion but it is not necessary that it will always have a positive response. When the person is overjoyed could lead him to illusion of reality thinking that life cannot be this way. Too much of anutanyt can be harmful. For eg - people feel elated when they consume drugs but it does have negative effects on the brain receptivity.