Can seeking happiness make people unhappy? Paradoxical effects of valuing happiness.
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...…to which they use ER strategies in response to different situations that vary in critical affective dimensions, such as emotional valence (e.g., Mauss et al. 2011), motivation (e.g., Carver and Scheier 1998; Tamir et al. 2008; Gable and Harmon-Jones 2011) and interpersonal context (e.g.,…...
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...On the other hand, seeking emotional happiness per se may impede well-being by setting oneself up for disappointment or narcissism (Mauss et al. 2011, Twenge 2006)....
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...To test whether effects of the values manipulation were mediated by disappointment, we followed procedures suggested by Baron and Kenny (1986)....
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