How positive emotions build physical health: Perceived positive social connections account for the upward spiral between positive emotions and vagal tone

vagal-tone · Psychological Science, 24(7), 1123–1132 · 2013

Kok and Fredrickson (2013) proved that happiness is a loop: the better your vagal tone, the better your friends look, and the better your friends look, the better your heart works.

Authors

Kok, B. E., Coffey, K. A., Cohn, M. A., et al.

Research lens

Kok and Fredrickson (2013) proved that happiness is a loop: the better your vagal tone, the better your friends look, and the better your friends look, the better your heart works.

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