Mood research and positive psychology justify the assumption that teachers' own levels of work enjoyment influence the extent to which they provide clarity and support, stimulation and application-orientation. Fredrickson and Branigan (2005) conclude from numerous studies that positive emotions broaden thought-action repertoires.
Michael B. Petras Jr., vice president of GE Consumer and Industrial — the unit that includes General Electric's lighting business — broadened the thought to all forms of lighting.
As he considered the moment, Wade broadened the thought — to what it would mean to his teammate Juwan Howard, a fellow Chicagoan, who has played 16 years without winning a title; to what it would mean to the Miami franchise; to what it would mean to this group that came together only eight months ago.
Most songs refer to particulars -- monarchy, organized religion, the Iraq war, pollution -- but the lyrics broaden the thoughts toward "breathe a little more/ buy a little less," or "every single death/ a single crime".
Reading is the only means I know of to enter intimately into minds remote in time or place from my own — from the ancient past, for example — or to feel broadened by the thoughts and experiences other people very different from me have had.
But Train of Thought, which broadened the author pool from poets to historians, philosophers and scientists, apparently did not achieve the canonical status of its predecessor.
Positive emotions however, may broaden one's thoughts and actions, and build important personal resources, including coping resources [ 24].
Shortly before this his interests had broadened into theology and sociology; three short books, or long essays, were the result: Thoughts After Lambeth (1931), The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948).
As a professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (where I studied with him), he has broadened his perspectives on medicine by an intimate acquaintance with philosophy and the Greek classics.
