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Why ‘I’m so happy I could cry’ makes sense

By Guest PostNovember 16, 2014Health, Sciencearvind murugan, geschaedigte nervenzellen, happy, matthew pinson, menachem stern, michela deleidi, ways to fold, yale psychologist

The phrase “tears of joy” never made much sense to Yale psychologist Oriana Aragon. But after conducting a series of studies of such seemingly incongruous expressions, she now understands better why people cry when they are happy.

“People may be restoring emotional equilibrium with these expressions,” said Aragon, lead author of work to be published in the journal Psychological Science. “They seem to take place when people are overwhelmed with strong positive emotions, and people who do this seem to recover better from those strong emotions.” (more…)

Exploring The Dark Side of Happiness

By Guest PostMay 29, 2011Culture, Healthbipolar disorder, catastrophic, dark side of happiness, drug and alcohol abuse, excessive happiness, happy, hebrew university of jerusalem, june gruber, positive emotion, psychological benefits of human happiness, risky sexual behavior, risky sexual promiscuity, university of california berkeley, university of denver, yale psychologist

As a researcher, Yale psychologist June Gruber has confirmed the many positive physical, social and psychological benefits of human happiness.

While working as a clinical scientist at the University of California-Berkeley, however, she witnessed extreme and damaging bouts of positive emotion during periods of mania in bipolar disorder. (more…)