“…Positive emotions are evidently essential in engendering learning behaviors that can contribute to anticipating goals and challenges, expanding thoughts and problem‐solving approaches, fostering motivation, and engaging in an unremitting effort (Pekrun, Goetz, Titz, & Perry, ). However, research has primarily focused on emotions, in general (e.g., academic emotions or achievement emotions), or on negative emotions, such as test anxiety, shame, and burnout related to learning, whereas little research has been designed to explore or develop positive emotions (Gong, Guan, Zhai, & Guo, ; Hong, Hwang, Liu, Ho, & Chen, ; Liu et al., ; Liu et al., ; Ma et al., ), even though this approach has been well documented and proved to be effective in education in Western countries (Ainley & Ainley, ; Buff, Reusser, Rakoczy, & Pauli, ; Goetz, Hall, Frenzel, & Pekrun, ; Hagenauer & Hascher, ; Park & Lim, ; Pekrun et al., ; Schukajlow et al., ).…”