When BASE jumper Ryan Saunders landed successfully after a particularly challenging jump, he celebrated the achievement with a verbal eruption that lasted over 60 s: “Yes! Yes! F…ing yes! I don’t care if I sound like the biggest retard in the world – that was f…ing awesome!” ( NRK, 2011). If a goal (or value) is threatened, lost, or not achieved, negative feelings follow. When a goal is accomplished, the accompanying feeling is positive. By contrast, retrospective emotions involve the evaluation of the activity in relation to its goal. Within this framework, easy tasks produce happy feelings while difficult tasks produce interest-regardless of whether a goal has been reached or not. Findings are discussed with reference to the functional well-being approach arguing that some momentary feelings are non-evaluative in the sense of being caused by the difficulty of the ongoing activity. No significant associations between facially expressed and self-reported emotions were observed. The participants display less happiness during the activity than before and after the activity. Self-reported emotions were also assessed immediately after the trip was over. This article proposes some answers from a study of facially expressed emotions measured moment by moment during downhill mountain biking. However, during the activity, these athletes seem neither pleased nor happy. When extreme sport athletes explain the engagement behind their taxing and risky endeavors, they often refer to the happiness generated by the activities. Department of Psychology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.Audun Hetland * Eirik Kjelstrup Matthias Mittner Joar Vittersø
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