Author Reply: The Need for Study of Correlates and Outcomes of Specific and General Aspects of Negative Emotions

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I agree with the commentators that study of physical disease risk conferred by affective dispositions such as anger/hostility, anxiety, and sadness, should be more cognizant of developments in emotion theory. Emotions differ in their functional value depending on the person’s lifespan trajectory. Discrete emotions have different psychophysiological signatures; and emotional competence, including production, regulation, and knowledge, may be critical in determining whether specific negative affects, or general negative affectivity, are toxic for physical health. Emotion researchers, however, have mainly focused on acute affective experiences and ignored the general effects of negative affectivity, which subsumes the discrete negative affects. Most diseases develop over years so more needs to be known about the biological signatures of chronic specific affects and negative affectivity.

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Suls, J. (2018). Author Reply: The Need for Study of Correlates and Outcomes of Specific and General Aspects of Negative Emotions. Emotion Review, 10(1), 70–72. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917725582

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