How positive emotions broaden and build.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a representative sample of the adult population of Mexico to examine the influence of gratitude on life satisfaction and importance given to help- ing others and found that gratitude had a positive relationship with life satisfaction while controlling for financial satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated various aspects of human-animal interactions that are conceivably related to positive emotions (human-animal bond and amount of time spent with animal) in different configurations (people with and without companion animals; people with dogs, cats, and horses), while considering potential confounds (time spent with humans in connected interactions and time spent outside).

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed that engaging in routine household chores plays a vital role in the development of a sense of social justice in a child, and that it is only a social justice that can lead to parental love being reciprocated by children's love.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce and review the main models, evidence of antecedents and outcomes and the relationship of engagement, happiness and well-being with other concepts such as life or job satisfaction, "flourishing", organisational commitment and others.

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.

TL;DR: The Adapted Mind as discussed by the authors explores evolutionary psychology and its implications for a new view of culture, in which the traditional view of the mind as a general-purpose computer, tabula rasa or passive recipient of culture is being replaced by the view that the mind resembles an intricate network of functionally specialized computers, each of which imposes contentful structure on human mental organization and culture.

TL;DR: A new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment, and love, that serve to broaden an individual's momentary thought–action repertoire, which in turn has the effect of building that individual's physical, intellectual, and social resources.

TL;DR: The idea that global structuring of a visual scene precedes analysis of local features is suggested, discussed, and tested as discussed by the authors, and it was found that global differences were detected more often than local differences.