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| Title |
Happiness and arousal: framing happiness as arousing results in lower happiness ratings for older adults
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00706 |
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| Authors |
Par Bjalkebring, Daniel Västfjäll, Boo E. A. Johansson |
| Abstract |
Older adults have been shown to describe their happiness as lower in arousal when compared to younger adults. In addition, older adults prefer low arousal positive emotions over high arousal positive emotions in their daily lives. We experimentally investigated whether or not changing a few words in the description of happiness could influence a person's rating of their happiness. We randomly assigned 193 participants, aged 22-92 years, to one of three conditions (high arousal, low arousal, or control). In line with previous findings, we found that older participants rated their happiness lower when framed as high in arousal (i.e., ecstatic, to be bursting with positive emotions) and rated their happiness higher when framed as low in arousal (i.e., satisfied, to have a life filled with positive emotions). Younger adults remained uninfluenced by the manipulation. Our study demonstrates that arousal is essential to understanding ratings of happiness, and gives support to the notion that there are age differences in the preference for arousal. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| Sweden | 1 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 3 | 60% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 49 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 20% |
| Unspecified | 9 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 8 | 16% |
| Unknown | 9 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 19 | 38% |
| Unspecified | 9 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 10% |
| Unknown | 11 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 October 2019.
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