It's more rare to experience purely negative emotions than you might think. Here's why.
Mixed emotions are much more common than purely negative onesled by Kate Barford examined how mixed emotions arise in day-to-day life. Across three participant samples, Barford and her colleagues found mixed emotions typically emerge when negative emotions intensify , and blend with ongoing positive emotions.
Thus, bad feelings do not always extinguish positive ones, like flicking off a light switch. Rather, they more often transform a positive mood into mixed emotions.negative emotions are surprisingly rare. In all three samples, participants reported purely negative emotions less than 1% of the time during one-to-two weeks of daily life. In contrast, mixed emotions were reported up to 36% of the time.
This shows that our negative emotions are rarely so strong that they overwhelm our positive ones, at least during everyday circumstances.Mixed emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic Currently, most of us are not facing"everyday circumstances." As the coronavirus spreads around the globe many nations have gone into lockdown, and some say that
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