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Discussion: The Value of Positive Emotions

Purpose: Connect and critique Fredrickson’s theory in personal experience.

1.List the four ways that positive emotions may help build personal resources and give an example of each from your own experience. That is, can you verify each of the four “building resources” effects of positive emotions in your experience?

2. Can you think of a counter-example to her theory? That is, a negative effect of a positive emotion?