According to Barbara Fredrickson, positive emotions tend to do all of the following EXCEPT
A)narrowing our mental focus.
B)creating an urge to play and to explore.
C)decreasing the bodily arousal when stressed and limiting stress-related damage.
D)making it more likely that a person will find a creative solution.

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Barbara Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory suggests that positive emotions broaden our awareness and encourage novel, varied, and exploratory thoughts and actions. This is in contrast to negative emotions, which tend to narrow our focus as a part of the fight-or-flight response. Choices B, C, and D are consistent with the effects of positive emotions as described by Fredrickson, making A the correct answer because it inaccurately represents the impact of positive emotions according to her theory.

According to Barbara Fredrickson, Positive Emotions Tend to Do All