"boost emotions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when trying to describe how an action or experience boosts someone's emotional response. For example, "The beautiful music from the concert hall was enough to boost the emotions of those in attendance."
Through exhaustive analysis of diaries kept by knowledge workers, we discovered the progress principle: Of all the things that can boost emotions, motivation, and perceptions during a workday, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work.
"Of all the things that can boost emotions, motivation, and perceptions during a workday, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work". This is what Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer refer to as the Progress Principle – the idea is that it's the "small wins" that keep us going, particularly in the face of stressors.
" Of all the things that can boost emotions, motivation, and perceptions during a workday, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work".
One study, for example, found that gratitude journaling for as little as 15 minutes was enough to boost positive emotions.
Discover the science tested practices and skills that can boost these emotions, and in turn an individual's overall well-being.
A new study suggests that watching cat videos may boost positive emotions in people and prepare them to take on difficult or unpleasant tasks, The Independent reports.
Gratitude can boost positive emotions, lower feelings of depression and stress, and help you sleep better and exercise more.
Research has shown that the tendency to use pleasant daily life experiences to boost positive emotions (positive affect reactivity) is associated with increased resilience against depressive symptoms in the future 79, 80. Reward learning mechanisms help an individual to identify pleasant activities and motivate repetition of behaviour associated with increased levels of positive emotions 81.
For the last six years, I've run the Happiness Institute in Australia, where I help clients apply research-based strategies for boosting positive emotions and managing stress and depression.
And the only sound permitted is whatever was captured at the time of shooting -- which means no extra sound effects or music added later to boost the emotion of a scene, nor even any rerecording of muffled dialogue.
