After reading"Can People Feel Happy & Sad At the Same Time?"you should be familiar with the following vocabulary:

Bipolar Model
Core Affect
Reciprocal Activation
Coactivation
Coinhibition
Uncoupled Activation
Amygdala
Ecological Validity

After reading"Can People Feel Happy & Sad At the Same Time?" you should be able to answer these questions:

1. What does Davidson's work in 1989 (see page 687 of this article) say about brain activation with positive and negative emotion? How does this relate to the work of Reeves & Nass?

2. What previous results from the literature do Larsen et al. use to support their deduction that people can feel both happy and sad simultaneously?

3. How did Larsen et al. operationalize emotion in Experiment 1? Why did they do so?

4. Why did Larsen et al. conduct Experiments 2 & 3?

5. How and why did the researchers change their DVs in Experiment 2? What was the IV for Experiment 2? The Results?

6. What were the differences in results between Experiments 2 & 3? To what were they attributed?

7. Can we feel happy and sad at the same time? According to Larsen et al., is it a common experience? What do you think? Do you have personal examples which support one argument over another?