ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2017
Ideal affect in daily life: implications for affective experience, health, and social behavior.
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- Everyday emotion-goal pursuit associations in older adults are moderated by goal representations.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2024Review
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- Judging emotions as good or bad: Individual differences and associations with psychological health.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- The Future of Affective Science: Introduction to the Special Issue.Affective science · 2023Article
- Synergistic Opportunities for Affective Science and Behavior Change.Affective science · 2023Article
- Valuing Negative Affect Weakens Affect-Health Linkages: Similarities and Differences Across Affect Valuation Measures.Motivation and emotion · 2023Article
- Cultural differences in the relations between expressive flexibility and life satisfaction over time.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions.Motivation and emotion · 2023Article
- Health Behavior Theory and Hypertension Management: Comparisons Among Black, White, and American Indian and Alaska Native Patients.Race and social problems · 2022Article
- 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
- Self-worth and bonding emotions are related to well-being in health-care providers: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- The development of temperament and maternal perception of child: A cross-cultural examination in the United States and Japan.Personality and individual differences · 2021Article
- The influence of affect on HPV vaccine decision making in an HPV vaccine naïve college student population.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Over the last decade, researchers have increasingly demonstrated that ideal affect-the affective states that people value and ideally want to feel-shapes different aspects of daily life. Here I briefly review Affect Valuation Theory (AVT), which integrates ideal affect into existing models of affect and emotion by identifying the causes and consequences of variation in ideal affect. I then describe recent research that applies AVT to the valuation of negative states as well as more complex states, examines how ideal affect shapes momentary affective experience, suggests that ideal affect has both direct and indirect effects on health, and illustrates that people's ideal affect shapes how they judge and respond to others. Finally, I discuss the implications of cultural and individual differences in ideal affect for clinical, educational, work, and leisure settings.
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