new paper in press at Emotion: "Meaningful endings and mixed emotions: The double-edged sword of reminiscence on good times"
Larsen, Jeff T
Hi everyone –
I wanted to share with all of you a paper that Hal Hershfield, our collaborators, and I now have in press at Emotion entitled, "Meaningful endings and mixed emotions: The double-edged sword of reminiscence on good times".
We don’t yet have a nice preprint or clever twitter thread, but here’s the abstract:
Meaningful endings lead people to experience mixed emotions, but it is unclear why. We hypothesized that it is in part because meaningful endings lead people to reminisce on good times. In Study 1, college students who took part in our study on their graduation day (vs. a typical day) reported having spent more time that day reminiscing on good times. Moreover, reminiscence on good times partially mediated the effect of graduation on happiness, sadness, and mixed emotions. In Study 2, we asked undergraduates to reminisce on good (vs. ordinary) times from high school and found that reminiscence on good times elicited happiness, sadness, and mixed emotions. In Study 3, we found that reminiscing on good times that were not (vs. were) repeatable elicited especially intense sadness and mixed emotions. Taken together, results indicate that reminiscing on good times, especially good times gone, elicits mixed emotions and that this helps explain why meaningful endings elicit mixed emotions.
In hopes that the abstract will help you get a rough idea for the methods, here are the results from Study 1. You’ll see that reminiscence on good times does a lot of work! It partially mediates the effects of graduation on happiness, sadness, and mixed emotions. It was quite the trifecta!
And the results from Study 3, where we find that thinking about good times you won’t be able to experience again are especially likely to elicit mixed emotions:
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email Hal (hal.her...@anderson.ucla.edu) and me.
-- Jeff
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Jeff T. Larsen, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology & Experimental Psychology Program Director
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
jeff....@utk.edu / google voice: 865-315-7927
Naomi Rothman
On Jun 7, 2021, at 12:57 PM, 'Larsen, Jeff T' via Ambivalence Research Collective <ambiv...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Hi everyone –
I wanted to share with all of you a paper that Hal Hershfield, our collaborators, and I now have in press at Emotion entitled, "Meaningful endings and mixed emotions: The double-edged sword of reminiscence on good times".
We don’t yet have a nice preprint or clever twitter thread, but here’s the abstract:
Meaningful endings lead people to experience mixed emotions, but it is unclear why. We hypothesized that it is in part because meaningful endings lead people to reminisce on good times. In Study 1, college students who took part in our study on their graduation day (vs. a typical day) reported having spent more time that day reminiscing on good times. Moreover, reminiscence on good times partially mediated the effect of graduation on happiness, sadness, and mixed emotions. In Study 2, we asked undergraduates to reminisce on good (vs. ordinary) times from high school and found that reminiscence on good times elicited happiness, sadness, and mixed emotions. In Study 3, we found that reminiscing on good times that were not (vs. were) repeatable elicited especially intense sadness and mixed emotions. Taken together, results indicate that reminiscing on good times, especially good times gone, elicits mixed emotions and that this helps explain why meaningful endings elicit mixed emotions.
In hopes that the abstract will help you get a rough idea for the methods, here are the results from Study 1. You’ll see that reminiscence on good times does a lot of work! It partially mediates the effects of graduation on happiness, sadness, and mixed emotions. It was quite the trifecta!
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And the results from Study 3, where we find that thinking about good times you won’t be able to experience again are especially likely to elicit mixed emotions:
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If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email Hal (hal.her...@anderson.ucla.edu) and me.
-- Jeff
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Jeff T. Larsen, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology & Experimental Psychology Program Director
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
jeff....@utk.edu / google voice: 865-315-7927
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