Savor now and also reap the rewards later: amplifying savoring predicts greater uplift frequency over time

Jose, Paul E.; Bryant, Fred B.; Macaskill, Ella

doi:10.1080/17439760.2020.1805504

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Section: Promising Directions For Future Theory and Researchmentioning

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“…In the same vein, Jose et al (2020) found that the use of amplifying strategies prospectively predicted an increase in the reported frequency of positive life events (i.e., an effect termed “uplift propagation”) over 3 months, whereas dampening responses did not significantly predict changes in uplift frequency over time. This uplift-propagation effect may result from a broadening and building of perceptual awareness of external positive events that savoring produces ( Jose et al, 2020 ). Future experimental work should directly test the hypothesis that increasing how often people savor increases their reported frequency of positive events by making them more aware of existing uplifts, rather than by motivating them proactively to create more uplifts in their daily lives.…”

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Current Progress and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring

Bryant

2021

Front. Psychol.

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As research on savoring has increased dramatically since publication of the book Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience (Bryant and Veroff, 2007), savoring has gradually become a core concept in positive psychology. I begin by reviewing the evolution of this concept, the development of instruments for assessing savoring ability and savoring strategies, and the wide range of applications of savoring in the psychosocial and health sciences. I then consider important directions for future theory and research. To advance our understanding of how naturalistic savoring unfolds over time, future work should integrate the perceptual judgments involved in not only the later stages of attending to and regulating positive experience (where past research has concentrated), but also the initial stages of searching for and noticing positive stimuli. Whereas most research has investigated reactive savoring, which occurs spontaneously in response to positive events or feelings, future work is also needed on proactive savoring, which begins with the deliberate act of seeking out or creating positive stimuli. To advance the measurement of savoring-related constructs, I recommend future work move beyond retrospective self-report methods toward the assessment of savoring as it occurs in real-time. The development of new methods of measuring meta-awareness and the regulation of attentional focus are crucial to advancing our understanding of savoring processes. I review recent research on the neurobiological correlates of savoring and suggest future directions in which to expand such work. I highlight the need for research aimed at unraveling the developmental processes through which savoring skills and deficits evolve and the role that savoring impairments play in the etiology and maintenance of psychopathology. Research is also needed to learn more about what enhances savoring, and to disentangle how people regulate the intensity versus duration of positive emotions. Finally, I encourage future researchers to integrate the study of anticipation, savoring the moment, and reminiscence within individuals across time.

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Section: Promising Directions For Future Theory and Researchmentioning

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Section: Promising Directions For Future Theory and Researchmentioning

confidence: 92%

Current Progress and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring

Bryant

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…However, as the season continues, people may be less likely to savor positive moments in their sport as these experiences become more common (Quoidbach et al, 2015) and perhaps even predictable (Gregory et al, 2023). Reductions in savouring could prevent people from maximizing the positive feelings that can be derived from sport, and could even prevent people from noticing additional uplifting moments (Jose et al, 2021). Overall, a decrease in savoring throughout a season may result in a decrease in positive feelings toward sport.…”

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Losing passion: A test of the seasonal attenuation of passion (SAP) hypothesis across three longitudinal studies with athletes and sport fans.

Schellenberg,

Verner-Filion,

Gaudreau

et al. 2024

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

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People often feel passionate toward activities in sport. But passion can change, and we know very little about how or when passion for sport changes over time. Here, we present a hypothesis about how, when, and why passion changes over time-the seasonal attenuation of passion hypothesis-which predicts that levels of passion toward activities will tend to decline over the course of a season in sport. We tested this hypothesis in three studies with intercollegiate volleyball players (N = 421), intercollegiate athletes from various sports (N = 298), and fans of the Winnipeg Jets (N = 418). In each study, participants reported levels of passion (i.e., harmonious passion, obsessive passion, general passion) at either the start and end of a season (Study 1) or at the start, middle, and end of a season (Studies 2 and 3). Using latent change score modeling (Study 1) and latent growth modeling (Studies 2 and 3), we found that all scores of passion decreased over the course of each season. This has implications for our understanding of how passion changes over time, especially in sporting activities which are often organized in recurring seasons; there appears to be a tendency for a season to sap people's passion over time.

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Savouring the Present to Better Recall the Past

Colombo,

Pavani,

Quoidbach

et al. 2024

J Happiness Stud

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So far, there is evidence showing that the use of specific emotion regulation strategies in response to negatively-valenced stimuli shapes the way people subsequently remember them. However, still little is known about the potential effects of savouring positive events on the associated memories. The aim of the current study was to test whether upregulating positive emotions in response to daily positive events could make participants’ memories more salient and positively-valenced over time. To do so, we conducted an ecological momentary assessment study in order to identify the occurrence of positive events and provide participants with different emotion regulation strategies in real-time. To explore memory phenomenology, a surprise recall task for each event was performed one week after. Compared to the control condition, the manipulation of savouring led to recall the events with greater salience (i.e., more vivid, coherent, accessible, full of sensory details, first-person recalled memories) which, in turn, led to retrieve the memory more positively. Furthermore, the findings indicated that each strategy uniquely affected different phenomenological dimensions of memory. Together, we suggest that differences in the use of savouring strategies might impact memory, leading to the recall of events with higher salience and to the maintenance of their positivity over time.

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Savor now and also reap the rewards later: amplifying savoring predicts greater uplift frequency over time

Cited by 4 publications

References 42 publications

Current Progress and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring

Current Progress and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring

Losing passion: A test of the seasonal attenuation of passion (SAP) hypothesis across three longitudinal studies with athletes and sport fans.

Savouring the Present to Better Recall the Past

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