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25. 11. 1997 "Nicole Contos's telephone kept ringing yesterday, but none of the callers had the voice of her bridegroom. The one man she had first met on a beach in Greece in August a year ago, the voice that belonged to the man she had expected to marry in a Manhattan cathedral filled with friends and relatives. The wedding never took place. The prospective bridegroom, Tasos Michael, sent the best man with a message: He's calling the whole thing off. Ms. Contos, 27, changed from her wedding gown into a black dress and turned what had been planned as her wedding reception into a party. Her brother gave a toast, and she danced to the disco hit ''I Will Survive.'' http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/25/nyregion/for-a-jilted-bride-no-wedding-bell-blues.html In 1997, New York bride-to-be Nicole Contos became front-page news worldwide -- and even had a chance to share her story with Oprah -- after the best man at her wedding showed up 20 minutes after t...

This disappointment effect has been challenged since the mid-1990s by researcher Suzanne C. Segerstrom, who has published, alone and in accord, several articles evaluating its plausibility. Her findings suggest that, rather than being unable to deal with disappointment, optimists are more likely to actively tackle their problems and experience some immunity compromise as a result http://www.optimismresearch.net/bookpage.htm https://psychology.as.uky.edu/users/scsege0 Emotional approach coping is a psychological construct that involves the use of emotional processing and emotional expression in response to a stressful situation. As opposed to emotional avoidance, in which emotions are experienced as a negative, undesired reaction to a stressful situation, emotional approach coping involves the conscious use of emotional expression and processing to better deal with a stressful situation. The construct was developed to explain an inconsistency in the stress and coping literature...

http://www.psycholawlogy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Emodiversity-calculator.png "It turns out that emotional diversity was a good thing (in terms of being associated with less depression etc.) for both positive and for negative emotions. This seems a little counter-intuitive. You might have expected that feeling many negative emotions would be worse than only feeling one of them – but in fact, it’s better. " (...) "When you’re in a good mood, you’re more responsive to positive stimuli. Conversely, when you’re in a bad mood, you’re more responsive to negative stimuli. Therefore, if you want to respond to the world optimally, you’ll need the right mix of moods for the right environment: emodiversity." Die Positive Psychologie postuliert ein verhältnis von drei zu eins zwischen positiven und negativen Interaktionen für ein optimales Arbeitsumfeld. 3 x hoch 1 x mal runter lautet die optimale Konfiguration einer emotionalen Achterbahn. Warum?: Alles was als...

Soon, Dr. Polivy accepted a position at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, which she has held for over 30 years. She likes the large amount of student contact and smaller class sizes at the Mississauga campus. She describes one class she teaches as an “old fashioned seminar where we sit outside under the trees and talk.” Students can often be seen in Dr. Polivy’s lab, which is rumoured to have good food. Dr. Polivy’s more famous experiments involve restrained eating. She and her colleague, Dr. Peter Herman, studied a technique termed the “milkshake preload.” For example, Herman and Polivy compared how much ice cream dieters and non-dieters ate after being fed either a small milkshake, a large milkshake, or no milkshake. Surprisingly, dieters ate more ice cream after eating a large milkshake than after eating a small one. Dr. Polivy calls this the “What the hell” effect , which she describes as thinking “What the hell, my diet’s already broken, so I might as well eat everyth...