A researcher finds that people who work in a fish processing plant, doing work that most people find extremely unpleasant, still have a positive mood about 60 percent of the time. Such a finding could most likely be explained by which of the following?

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This finding could be explained by the positivity offset, which refers to the tendency for people to experience positive emotions more frequently than negative emotions, even in situations that are objectively unpleasant or neutral.

A Researcher Finds That People Who Work in a Fish