ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
The role of positive emotion in harmful health behavior: Implications for theory and public health campaigns.
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- Enhanced work engagement in Japanese employees following a 12-day online gratitude journal intervention.BMC psychology · 2025Trial
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- Social interactions and affective neuroscience personality traits among Chinese educators: a randomized intervention study on wellbeing.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Ecological momentary assessment and mediation analyses reveal relationships between affect, craving, and substance use in daily life.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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- The latent profile structure of negative emotion in female college students and its impact on eating behavior: the mediating role of physical exercise.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The role of positive emotion in harmful health behavior: Implications for theory and public health campaigns.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Doctors' Abusive Supervision and Patients' Deviant Behavior in Taizhou, China: The Mediating Role of Patients' Negative Emotion.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
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Abstract
Meta-analyses have concluded that positive emotions do not reduce appetitive risk behaviors (risky behaviors that fulfill appetitive or craving states, such as smoking and excessive alcohol use). We propose that this conclusion is premature. Drawing on the Appraisal Tendency Framework and related theories of emotion and decision-making, we hypothesized that gratitude (a positive emotion) can decrease cigarette smoking, a leading cause of premature death globally. A series of multimethod studies provided evidence supporting our hypothesis (collective
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