We report upon an empirical study that tested these arguments for two negatives (anxiety, anger) and two positive (joy, delight) emotions in the context of one of two retail stores (clothing or electronic goods).
Backstage, Linney was personable and positive, a true delight to chat with.
Joy Buolamwini exploded into my orbit like a solar flare: an exuberant, shining ball of positive energy and delight.
May we gratefully receive and be held in the positive, the laughter, delight and humor showing up in others around us and across the planet.
Nadal, seldom short of positive energy, leapt with delight and hustled to his chair to prepare to serve for the championship.
It is a style that goes well with plantsmanship, a word which to detractors means only a kind of one-upmanship and obscurantism (indeed a kind of snobbery, the besetting sin of the gardener), but which in its positive sense connotes a delight in diversity and a desire to explore genus and species to the fullest.
Dubbed the Asus Transformer V (as in "Five," not vendetta) the device dual boots into Android instantly and has a little ZenFone stuck to the back of the screen, a feature that I'm positive will confuse and delight buyers to no end.
"Feedback from both customer and crew has been extremely positive and we are delighted to be operating flights from Cardiff Airport where customers from Wales can now enjoy the Thomson 787 Dreamliner experience".
But the delight with which positive GDP figures or up-ratings in forecasts are greeted by politicians and central bankers owes more to their relief that their policies might be working than to any evidence that the general population is getting better off, let alone happier.
Essentially, what Roeber and Garb described in their chat is a means of combining the best possible way of tiptoeing around a potentially negative interaction with positive ones that excite and delight.
