Letting Go of the Negative, Holding on to the Positive? Within-Person Trajectories of Affective Habituation to Negative and Positive Stimuli
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Published online on August 04, 2025
Abstract
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Volume 52, Issue 9, Page 2966-2980, September 2026.
Thedifferential affective habituationhypothesis argues that affective reactions decrease faster for positive than for negative information due to the greater evolutionary importance of threat over reward. However, limited evidence and low-powered ...
Thedifferential affective habituationhypothesis argues that affective reactions decrease faster for positive than for negative information due to the greater evolutionary importance of threat over reward. However, limited evidence and low-powered ...