11: Being Good Part 2: Practice of Using Positive Emotions to Lead an Authentic Life

The following sections are included:

• What Freud Missed is Worth a Laugh

• Segment 1: Negative Emotions and Evolutionary Advantage

  • Introduction: Negative versus Positive Emotions

  • Emotions: Heritable Neural Advantage

  • Negative Emotions: Known Survival Function

  • Negativity Bias: Open All Hours to Bad News

  • Heightened Threat-Awareness: Bad is Stronger Than Good

• Segment 2: Power of Positive Emotions

  • Positive Emotions: Ambiguous Utility to Survival

  • Positivity: Listing its Many Forms

  • Distinct Phenomena: Emotions, Feelings and Moods

  • Inseparable Triad: Mood-Cognition-Action

  • Beyond Evolution: Broaden and Build Spiral

  • Positivity Ratio: Tipping Point Between Flourishers and Languishers

  • Scientific Reprieve: Higher Positivity Ratios Correlated to Flourishing

  • Conclusion

• Task to Embed Learning