APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Benefits and Losses from Bittersweet Experiences: The Role of Focusing on Affective Inconsistency of the Situation
- Ewa Trzebińska
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Abstract
The results of 2 experiments show that emphasizing affective inconsistency of bittersweet situation facilitates mixed emotions which in turn bring hedonic gains in predominantly unpleasant situations or hedonic losses together with cognitive gains in predominantly pleasant situations.
Emotion
