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#767 Belén López-Pérez: Emotion Regulation, Emotion Goals, Happiness, and Empathy

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Positive and Negative Emotional Goals

Emotional goals are the emotions that I want to feel, either in general or in a particular context. We have both positive and negative emotional goals, then, correct? Yeah, exactly. Sometimes it might be adaptive to actually be motivated to experience negative emotions. There are several social context situations where it's adaptive and also motivating to experience negative emotion.

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