How often do you feel happy, enthusiastic, amused, inspired, or calm on a given day? For more than a decade, researchers have been uncovering a link between positive emotions and better health, particularly for women.
But there’s a catch. Beyond how much positive emotion we feel, more recent research has found that variety matters as well. For example, people who experience a greater variety of positive emotions may be less depressed, healthier, and better able to cope with negative events.
A new study took a first look at the biological processes that may be underlying some of these benefits—specifically, how variety in our emotional life relates to inflammation, a major risk factor for disease and death.
[For more on this story by KIRA M. NEWMAN, go to https://greatergood.berkeley.e...ety_in_your_emotions]
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