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Success, failure, attention, and reaction to others: The warm glow of success.

Alice M. Isen
- 01 Aug 1970 - 
- Vol. 15, Iss: 4, pp 294-301
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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 447 citations till now.

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Illusion and well-being: a social psychological perspective on mental health

TL;DR: Research suggesting that certain illusions may be adaptive for mental health and well-being is reviewed, examining evidence that a set of interrelated positive illusions—namely, unrealistically positive self-evaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism—can serve a wide variety of cognitive, affective, and social functions.
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The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?

TL;DR: The results reveal that happiness is associated with and precedes numerous successful outcomes, as well as behaviors paralleling success, and the evidence suggests that positive affect may be the cause of many of the desirable characteristics, resources, and successes correlated with happiness.
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Organizational citizenship behavior: its nature and antecedents

TL;DR: A study of 422 employees and their supervisors from 58 departments of two banks found that citizenship behavior includes at least two separate dimensions Altruism, or helping specific persons, and Generalized Compliance, a more impersonal form of conscientious citizenship.
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Positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and thought‐action repertoires

TL;DR: Two experiments with 104 college students tested the broaden‐and‐build theory, which hypothesises that positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and thought‐action repertoires and negative emotions, relative to a neutral state, narrowed thought‐ action repertoires.
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Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that a person's chronic happiness level is governed by three major factors: a genetically determined set point for happiness, happiness-relevant circumstantial factors, and happiness relevant activities and practices.
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Personality and Assessment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the acquired meaning of stimuli and on the situation as perceived, viewing the individual as a cognitive-affective being who construes, interprets, and transforms the stimulus in a dynamic reciprocal interaction with the social world.
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Affecting the salience of the social responsibility norm: effects of past help on the response to dependency relationships.

TL;DR: A self-report scale assessing social responsibility tendencies was significantly correlated with the effort measure in the Prior Help-High Dependency condition and tended to exert the greatest effort in behalf of their dependent peer.
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