Positive Affectivity is a characteristic that describes how animals and humans experience positive emotions and interact with others and with their surroundings. Those with high positive affectivity are typically enthusiastic, energetic, confident, active, and alert. Those having low levels of positive affectivity can be characterized by sadness, lethargy, distress, and un-pleasurable engagement (see negative affectivity).
Read more about Positive Affectivity: Positive and Negative Affectivity, Testing For Positive Affectivity, The Effects of Positive Affectivity, Further Reading
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“I have always had something to live besides a personal life. And I suspected very early that to live merely in an experience of, in an expression of, in a positive delight in the human cliches could be no business of mine.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)