We've said, could it be that positive emotions are simply easier to process than negative emotions, and so you switch to the positive emotions?

And under conditions where it really matters, older people do process the negative information just as well as the positive information.

And sad, negative feelings are darkly colored.

Maybe our neural centers in our brain are degraded such that we're unable to process negative emotions anymore.

Especially expressions of contempt or disgust, well you really need a lot of positives to upset that.

And Freud in part reflects the anatomy of the human emotion system which is that we have both a positive and a negative system, and our negative system is extremely sensitive.

The first drawback is that it turns out the pleasant life, your experience of positive emotion, is heritable, about 50 percent heritable, and, in fact, not very modifiable.

And, as I said, it's not particularly malleable.

So, that's the second path. The first path, positive emotion.

The other thing about positive emotions is that they have a universal signal.

Second is that positive emotion habituates. It habituates rapidly, indeed.

Is health a function of positive engagement, of pleasure, and of meaning in life?

Conscious of the need to combat the negative effects of cultures of violence and complacency in the face of current dangers in this field through long term programmes of education and training,

So when people's symptoms go away, they tend to recur, because there isn't a sense of the other half of what pleasure, happiness, compassion, gratitude, what are the positive emotions.

So me talking about emotion is like Gandhi talking about gluttony, but it is the central organizing process of the way we think.

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What mood?

Prolonged operation in these areas bears heavily on individual performance and morale.

In many conflicts sentiments of ethnic belonging are mixed with sentiments of a religious or political character.

Angry?

The momentum and the euphoria that NEPAD has generated must not be allowed to wane.

And that is the translation of the feelings that we may have about compassion into the wider world, into action.

American women said to Len, when he dated them, You're no fun. You don't have positive emotion. Get lost.

That is, in a corporation, is productivity a function of positive emotion, engagement and meaning?

If entertainment can be diverted to also increase positive emotion, meaning, eudaimonia, it will be good enough.

Was he a little lowspirited?

Calm him down somehow.

You, Esmeralda, have sympathy, and yet you're willing to remain passive and let the inevitable happen.

But in the meantime, his mood has changed. He's now at the bottom of the wave Depressed, melancholy.

79. According to the reports, the constitutional debate is increasingly marked by emotional outbursts and statements are increasingly polarized.

The result has been a sharp fall in consumer confidence the German index of consumer sentiment was small but positive in November 2000 it has since fallen to 20, the sharpest decline in the euro area.

Moreover, it was necessary to do away with the injustices and frustrations that provided fertile ground for terrorism.

It's below your emotions.

The last thing is emotion.

I believe I am in the mood.

I've been in a tortured mood lately.

Getting sentimental?

Enough with feeling down.

The mean reds? You mean like the blues?

The Committee encourages the State party to continue monitoring all initiatives and tendencies that may give rise to racist and xenophobic behaviour, and to combat the negative consequences of such tendencies.

The overall picture is mixed, with both positive and negative developments.

And I have to tell you about my friend, Len, to talk about why positive psychology is more than positive emotion, more than building pleasure.

Five kids had emotional breakdowns.

The New Revolt of the Masses

Rainy days make me depressed.