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  1. A Critical Review of the "Undoing Hypothesis": Do ...

    Second, there was insufficient evidence to evaluate the undoing hypothesis as a potential mechanism through which state positive emotions affect health. Future research should focus on identifying the key parameters responsible for demonstrating the undoing effect when it is observed in order to understand how the experience of positive ...

  2. The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Since this undoing hypothesis was first proposed, dozens of studies have sought to test this hypothesis, but findings to date have been mixed (Cavanagh & Larkin, 2018).In the present review, we employ a meta-analytic technique to quantitatively synthesize the literature on the undoing effect of positive emotions, examining the relationship between positive emotions and autonomic nervous system ...

  3. Undoing (psychology)

    Undoing (psychology) Undoing is a defense mechanism in which a person tries to cancel out or remove an unhealthy, destructive or otherwise threatening thought or action by engaging in contrary behavior. For example, after thinking about being violent with someone, one would then be overly nice or accommodating to them.

  4. PDF A Critical Review of the "Undoing Hypothesis": Do ...

    A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted for published literature from 1998 to 2017 and included the databases, PsycInfo, Medline, and Google Scholar, using the following key terms: "undoing hypothesis," "undoing effect," and "physiological down-regulation.". In addition, reference lists from eligible studies were ...

  5. A Critical Review of the "Undoing Hypothesis": Do Positive ...

    3 Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, 1124 Life Sciences Building, P.O. Box 6040, Morgantown, WV, 26505, USA. ... Second, there was insufficient evidence to evaluate the undoing hypothesis as a potential mechanism through which state positive emotions affect health. Future research should focus on identifying the key parameters ...

  6. Psychological Resilience and Positive Emotional Granularity: Examining

    The undoing hypothesis was tested in a series of three experiments (Fredrickson & Levenson, 1998; Fredrickson, Mancuso, Branigan, & Tugade, 2000). Each investigation experimentally induced a high-arousal, negative emotion, which produces increases in sympathetic reactivity (e.g., increases in heart rate, vasoconstriction, and blood pressure).

  7. The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Review

    The undoing hypothesis proposes that positive emotions serve to undo sympathetic arousal related to negative emotions and stress. However, a recent qualitative review challenged the undoing effect by presenting conflicting results.

  8. Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions

    In a study that tested the undoing effect (Fredrickson et al., 2000), participants first completed baseline measures of heart rate, finger pulse, and blood pressure. Then, all participants were induced to feel a high-arousal negative emotion by telling participants they would have 60 seconds to write a 3-minute speech on a topic provided to them.

  9. A Critical Review of the "Undoing Hypothesis": Do Positive Emotions

    The undoing hypothesis proposes that positive emotions serve to undo sympathetic arousal related to negative emotions and stress. However, a recent qualitative review challenged the undoing effect ...

  10. A Critical Review of the "Undoing Hypothesis": Do Positive Emotions

    According to this hypothesis, the experience of state positive emotions or positive affect contributes to faster recovery from the body's physiological response to stress. This paper critically reviews literature concerning the undoing hypothesis. Several common methodological weaknesses were identified, including conceptual and design issues.

  11. The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Review

    The undoing hypothesis proposes that positive emotions serve to undo sympathetic arousal related to negative emotions and stress. However, a recent qualitative review challenged the undoing effect by presenting conflicting results. To address this issue quantitatively, we conducted a meta-analytic review of 16 studies (N = 1,220; 72 effect sizes) measuring sympathetic recovery during elicited ...

  12. Undoing Hypothesis of Positive Emotions

    History of Undoing Hypothesis Effect of Positive Emotions. As early as 1988, Robert W. Levenson suggested that "the evolutionary meaning of positive emotions such as happiness might be to function as efficient 'undoers' of states of ANS arousal produced by certain negative emotions" (Levenson, 1988, p. 23).The actual theory of undoing affect can be traced back to a 1998 publication of ...

  13. Undoing (Defense Mechanism)

    Undoing has been considered one of the fundamental defense mechanisms in obsessive-compulsive disorder. In fact, its existence was first noted by Freud in "Notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis" (1909/1959).Empirical evidence has demonstrated that, compared to healthy controls, undoing is indeed more used by obsessive-compulsive disorder patients (Blaya et al. 2006; Pollock and Andrews ...

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    A Critical Review of the "Undoing Hypothesis": Do Positive Emotions Undo the Effects of Stress?

  15. The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions

    Positive emotions are hypothesized to undo the cardiovascular aftereffects of negative emotions. Study 1 tests this undoing effect. Participants (n = 170) experiencing anxiety-induced cardiovascular reactivity viewed a film that elicited (a) contentment, (b) amusement, (c) neutrality, or (d) sadness.Contentment-eliciting and amusing films produced faster cardiovascular recovery than neutral or ...

  16. The Role of Positive Emotions in Positive Psychology

    The undoing hypothesis predicts that those who experience positive emotions on the heels of a high-activation negative emotion will show the fastest cardiovascular recovery. My colleagues and I tested this by measuring the time elapsed from the start of the randomly assigned film until the cardiovascular reactions induced by the negative ...

  17. A Critical Review of the "Undoing Hypothesis": Do Positive Emotions

    According to this hypothesis, the experience of state positive emotions or positive affect contributes to faster recovery from the body's physiological response to stress. This paper critically reviews literature concerning the undoing hypothesis. Several common methodological weaknesses were identified, including conceptual and design issues.

  18. Mood over matter: can happiness be your undoing?

    Research in the field of positive psychology has revealed many advantages of positive emotions. According to the undoing hypothesis of Fredrickson and Levenson, positive affect can undo the physiological effects of negative emotion. The present study examined whether positive emotions could undo the cognitive effects of negative emotion.

  19. The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions

    The undoing hypothesis proposes that positive emotions serve to undo sympathetic arousal related to negative emotions and stress. ... Melissa Falkenstern. Psychology. 2009; Research in the field of positive psychology has revealed many advantages of positive emotions. According to the undoing hypothesis (Fredrickson & Levenson, 1998), positive ...

  20. PDF The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions

    Results supported the undoing hypothesis: Those who viewed either of the two positive emotion clips showed the fastest cardiovascular recovery. OVERVIEW OF STUDIES Although this initial experiment provided compelling preliminary support for the undoing hypothesis, a number of shortcomings and a viable alternative

  21. Undoing

    undoing n. In psychoanalysis, a defence mechanism whereby an emotional conflict associated with an action is dealt with by negating the action or attempting 'magically' to cause it not to have occurred by substituting an approximately opposite action. It differs from an ordinary act of making amends for an action that one regrets, inasmuch ...

  22. Exploring the Defense Mechanism of Undoing

    Key Definition: The defense mechanism of undoing is a psychological mechanism that involves a person trying to reverse or "undo" a previously undesirable thought, feeling, or behavior by engaging in contradictory actions or behaviors. It is an unconscious process aimed at alleviating guilt, shame, or anxiety resulting from an unacceptable thought or action.