Why Emotionally Extreme Experiences Are More Meaningful in Life?
What makes an experience meaningful? What does it take to live a meaningful life? In trying to answer this question, most researchers focus on the valence of the life experience: is it positive or negative?Researchers who focus on positive emotions have amassed evidence suggesting that we are more likely to find more meaning in our lives on days when we experience positive emotions.In contrast, researchers taking a meaning-making perspective tend to focus on meaning in the context of adjustment to stressful events.
These two areas of research are often treated separately from each other, making it difficult to answer the question about which valence of our emotional life—positive or negative—is most likely to be meaningful.Both perspectives.
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