PSY 106 Chapter 5: Positive Emotions
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Since positive emotions are usually ephemeral, many people consider them trivial, unaware of their enormous importance. The reality is that positive emotions are a hallmark of happiness and can even frustrate and undo the effects of negative feelings (fredrickson, tugade, waugh & larkin, Before entering fully into the concrete world of positive emotions, let us see what an emotion is. The definition of emotion tells us about a very intense feeling produced by a fact, an idea, a memory that is, something that we perceive and notice very deeply in ourselves. Positive emotions are those that give us a pleasant feeling or a positive feeling. The first thing is to be able to know what an emotion is and where it comes from. The word emotion derives from the latin movere and means "to move outwards". With this meaning, it is seen that emotions are a motor and from them derives the strength to do everything in our life.
