Trial reportEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2018
Valuing calm enhances enjoyment of calming (vs. exciting) amusement park rides and exercise.
Trial report in Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Discrepancies between ideal and actual affect predict negative symptoms in schizophrenia in daily life: An ecological momentary assessment study.Psychiatry research · 2026Article
- Affect valuations predict emotional response to satisfying and disappointing exam scores.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Reducing discrepancies between actual and ideal affect across adulthood: the roles of activity flow conduciveness, pleasantness, and familiarity.Cognition & emotion · 2024Article
- Judging emotions as good or bad: Individual differences and associations with psychological health.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Psychological Resilience: An Affect-Regulation Framework.Annual review of psychology · 2023Review
- Momentary Emotion Goals and Spontaneous Emotion Regulation in Daily Life: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Desire for High Versus Low Arousal Positive Emotion.Affective science · 2022Article
- Why does passion matter more in individualistic cultures?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Anger and Sadness Expressions Situated in Both Positive and Negative Contexts: An Investigation in South Korea and the United States.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Ideal affect in daily life: implications for affective experience, health, and social behavior.Current opinion in psychology · 2017Review
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Abstract
Do people derive more enjoyment from activities that match how they ideally want to feel (their "ideal affect")? Affect valuation theory (AVT) predicts that they do; however, no study has directly examined whether this is the case. Therefore, the authors conducted 4 studies that examined whether valuing calm and other low arousal positive states (LAP) increased enjoyment of calming (vs. exciting) activities. In Study 1, the more participants valued LAP, the more enjoyment they recalled during calming (vs. exciting) episodes from their lives. In Studies 2-3, the more participants valued LAP, the more enjoyment they experienced during calming (vs. exciting) amusement park rides, both in the United States and Hong Kong. To assess causality, in Study 4, participants were randomly assigned to either a "value LAP" or control condition and then engaged in either low or high intensity exercise. Participants in the value LAP condition who engaged in low intensity exercise reported greater enjoyment than those who engaged in high intensity exercise; these differences did not emerge in the control condition. People's trait levels of experienced LAP ("actual LAP") were not related to their enjoyment of calming (vs. exciting) activities. Together, these findings provide evidence that people derive more enjoyment from activities that match their ideal affect. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for AVT as well as interventions aimed at enhancing well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record
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