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Presentation
2: 10:45-11:45 am
"What Good Are
Positive Emotions?"
Barbara
Fredrickson
Kenan Distinguished
Professor of Psychology
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill |
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"What Good Are Positive
Emotions?"
Fredrickson’s broaden-and-build
theory of positive
emotions states that, unlike
negative emotions, which
narrow people's behavioral
urges toward specific actions
that were life preserving
for our ancestors (e.g., fight, flight),
positive emotions broaden
people's momentary thought-action
repertoires (e.g., play,
explore) in ways that, over time, build
consequential personal resources
that also aided our
ancestors' survival. In
this presentation, I review the latest
empirical evidence that
supports the broaden-and-build theory
and draws out implications
the theory holds for attaining
flourishing mental health.
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Presentation
3: 1:00-2:00 pm
"Emotion-Related Self-Regulation"
Nancy
Eisenberg
Professor of Psychology
Arizona State University |
“Emotion-Related
Self-Regulation:
The Construct and Developmental
Correlates in Children ”
Recently there has been
an increasing appreciation of the
role of emotion and its
regulation in socioemotional
functioning in both typical
and atypical samples. A variety
of constructs have historically
been considered in relation
to emotion regulation including
effortful control, reactive
control, and behavioral
inhibition. I will discuss
different conceptualizations
of emotion-related regulation
and their hypothesized relations
to adjustment. In
addition, I will review
findings from research on the unique
relations of different measures
of emotion-related control
to children's adjustment
and resiliency. The results from
our studies underscore the
importance of differentiating
between effortful and reactive
control when predicting
developmental outcomes.
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Presentation
4: 2:15-3:15 pm
“The Adaptive Potential
of Coping through
Emotional Approach”
Annette
Stanton
Professor of Psychology
University of California,
Los Angeles |
“The
Adaptive Potential of Coping through Emotional Approach”
A generally accepted conclusion
of research in stress and
coping processes is that
emotion-focused coping attempts
typically are associated
with dysfunctional outcomes.
Studies from our and other
research groups challenge the
“ bad reputation ” of emotion-focused
coping by demonstrating
that the obtained association
between emotion-focused coping
and maladjustment was driven
by limitations in previous empirical
and conceptual work on this
construct. I will discuss longitudinal
and experimental research
that demonstrates the adaptive
potential of coping through
emotional approach (i.e., intentional
emotional processing and
expression) in the context of several
stressors, including infertility,
breast cancer, and chronic pain.
I will also address important
moderators of the relations of
emotional approach coping
and adaptive outcomes, including
characteristics of the environmental
context, stressful experience,
and individual.
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