Positive emotion dispositions differentially associated with Big Five personality and attachment style

Shiota, Michelle N.; Keltner, Dacher; John, Oliver P.

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“…Other studies of cognitive outcomes have emphasized the "vastness" aspect of the awe experience. Experimentally elicited awe has been found to alter the self-concept in a way consistent with this proposed aspect, increasing the number of "universals" such as "I am a human" and "I am a living being" offered by participants as self-descriptors in the Twenty Statements Test (Shiota et al, 2006), and increasing feelings of oneness with others "in general," as well as with personal friends (Van Cappellen & Saroglou, 2012). Other studies have found that viewing awe-inspiring videos on nature and childbirth led to an increase in spirituality, defined as a "tendency to orient oneself toward a larger transcendent reality" (Saroglou, Buxant, & Tilquin, 2008, p. 169).…”

Section: Implications For Cognition Perception and Self-conceptmentioning

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“…Awe experiences were not rated as challenging or tiring (in fact, they were rated significantly less so than accomplishments), suggesting that the kind of cognitive activity involved in awe does not require effortful, controlled processing. Correlations of dispositional awe-proneness with Extraversion (r = .34), Openness to Experience (r = .49), and Need for Cognitive Closure (r = -.39) also link awe to a tendency to push one's own experiential and intellectual boundaries (Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006;Shiota et al, 2007).…”

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Transcending the Self: Awe, Elevation, and Inspiration

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Transcending the Self: Awe, Elevation, and Inspiration

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“…Trait emotions are enduring aspects of a person's personality that show stability over time and reflect elevated baseline levels of an emotion, increased tendencies to experience an emotion, and/or a decreased threshold for triggering the experience of an emotion (Rosenberg, 1998;Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006).…”

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Lying because we care: Compassion increases prosocial lying.

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2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Prosocial lies, or lies intended to benefit others, are ubiquitous behaviors that have important social and economic consequences. Though emotions play a central role in many forms of prosocial behavior, no work has investigated how emotions influence behavior when one has the opportunity to tell a prosocial lie-a situation that presents a conflict between two prosocial ethics: lying to prevent harm to another, and honesty, which might also provide benefits to the target of the lie. Here, we examine whether the emotion of compassion influences prosocial lying, and find that compassion causally increases and positively predicts prosocial lying. In Studies 1 and 2, participants evaluated a poorly written essay and provided feedback to the essay writer. Experimentally induced compassion felt towards the essay writer (Study 1) and individual differences in trait compassion (Study 2) were positively associated with inflated feedback to the essay writer. In both of these studies, the relationship between compassion and prosocial lying was partially mediated by an enhanced desire to prevent emotional harm. In Study 3, we found moderation such that experimentally induced compassion increased lies that resulted in financial gains for a charity, but not lies that produced financial gains for the self. This research illuminates the emotional underpinnings of the common yet morally complex behavior of prosocial lying, and builds on work highlighting the potentially harmful effects of compassionan emotion typically seen as socially beneficial.

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“…Costa and McCrae (1980) found that Extraversion was related to the display of positive emotions and that Neuroticism was associated with the display of negative emotions. The association of these two personality dimensions to emotional expressions has received strong support in the literature (e.g., Gross, Sutton, & Ketelaar, 1998;McCrae & Costa, 1991;Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006; Watson, Wiese, Vaidyn, & Tellegen, 1999). Links between emotions and the other personality dimensions have not received as much attention, but McCrae and Costa (1991) reported that Openness to Experience was positively correlated with both positive and negative emotions and that Agreeableness and Conscientiousness were associated positively with positive emotions and negatively with negative emotions.…”

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“…Shiota et al (2006) also found that Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience were each positively related to aspects of positive emotion. As done in many of the studies reported above (Costa & McCrae, 1980; McCrea & Costa, 1991;Shiota et al, 2006;Watson et al, 1999), researchers often use self-reports of emotional experiences to explore the association between …”

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Maternal Personality: Longitudinal Associations to Parenting Behavior and Maternal Emotional Expressions toward Toddlers

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SYNOPSISObjective-Longitudinal associations among maternal personality, emotional expressions, and parenting were examined.Design-Maternal parenting (sensitivity and intrusiveness) and positive emotional expressions were observed during a free-play session with toddlers at 18 (T1, n = 246) and 30 (T3, n = 216) months. Mothers completed a personality measure at T1 and a questionnaire measuring their emotional expressiveness (positive and negative) when toddlers were 24 months old (T2, n = 213).Results-Dimensions of maternal personality and maternal emotional expressiveness were related to individual differences in maternal parenting behaviors, in particular to maternal sensitivity. Conscientiousness and Agreeableness at T1 were positively associated with observed positive emotional expressions at T1. Agreeableness, Openness to Experience, and Extraversion at T1 also were positively related to positive emotional expressions reported by mothers at T2. Maternal positive emotional expressions (T1 and T2), in turn, were associated with more sensitive behavior observed with toddlers at T3.Conclusion-In addition to direct effects of maternal personality on maternal parenting, mothers' emotional expressiveness was found to be a possible pathway for explaining relations of maternal personality and parenting. INTRODUCTIONMaternal parenting interactions high in sensitivity and low in intrusiveness have been linked to a number of positive outcomes in children, such as secure parent -child attachment (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978; De Wolff & van IJzendoorn, 1997), more prosocial behavior (Janssens & Dekovic, 1997), fewer behavior problems (Smith, Calkins, Keane, Anastopoulos, & Shelton, 2004), and more positive peer interactions (Mize & Pettit, 1997). Maternal parenting that is high in sensitivity and low in intrusiveness may be particularly important during toddlerhood. Toddlers are learning self-regulation and moving away from total reliance on external regulation from caregivers (Kopp, 1982). In addition to seeking more autonomy, toddlers exhibit dramatic increases in cognitive, language, and physical development (Kopp & Neufeld, 2003;Sroufe, 1995). Successful parenting during this period should focus on supporting toddlers' successful negotiation of these developmental tasks (Kopp, 1982;Sroufe, 1995). It appears to be especially important for mothers to meet their toddlers' needs for autonomy while recognizing when external control is needed and providing such control in a sensitive, non-intrusive manner.Even though maternal parenting behaviors are important to toddlers' optimal development, factors associated with individual differences in levels of maternal sensitivity and intrusiveness NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptParent Sci Pract. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2008 January 3. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript often are not considered. Belsky (1984) developed a model examining the determinants of sensitive, developmentally appropriate parenting and identif...

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Positive emotion dispositions differentially associated with Big Five personality and attachment style

Cited by 704 publications

References 69 publications

Transcending the Self: Awe, Elevation, and Inspiration

Transcending the Self: Awe, Elevation, and Inspiration

Lying because we care: Compassion increases prosocial lying.

Maternal Personality: Longitudinal Associations to Parenting Behavior and Maternal Emotional Expressions toward Toddlers

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