Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.

This is a show on how the negative can be positive—on how we actually need the emotions that make us uncomfortable. They make us whole, balancing the “positive” emotions. Dr. Todd Kashdan will lay out the science on how anger, anxiety, and other “negative” feelings can actually be motivating, illuminating, and helpful—giving us our best shot at success and fulfillment.

Dr. Kashdan’s myth-busting book he’ll be discussing, co-authored with Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, is “The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self—Not Just Your ‘Good’ Self—Drives Success and Fullfillment.”

This article appears in Nov 23-30, 2016.

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The Upside Of “Dark Side” Emotions with Dr. Todd Kashdan

by Hayley Jo Murphy, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 7, 2016

<h1>The Upside Of “Dark Side” Emotions with Dr. Todd Kashdan</h1> <p class="byline">by Hayley Jo Murphy, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 7, 2016</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> </div> <p> Welcome to Amy Alkon's <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2016/11/28/the-upside-of-dark-side-emotions-with-dr-todd-kashdan" target="_blank">HumanLab: The Science Between Us</a>, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.</p> <p>This is a show on how the negative can be positive—on how we actually need the emotions that make us uncomfortable. They make us whole, balancing the "positive" emotions. Dr. Todd Kashdan will lay out the science on how anger, anxiety, and other "negative" feelings can actually be motivating, illuminating, and helpful—giving us our best shot at success and fulfillment.</p> <p>Dr. Kashdan's myth-busting book he'll be discussing, co-authored with Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, is <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Upside-Your-Dark-Side-Self_Drives/dp/1491528222?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1491528222&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;linkId=XLEILQ7RKMXCXSY5&amp;redirect=true&amp;ref_=as_li_tl&amp;sa-no-redirect=1&amp;tag=advicegoddess-20" target="_blank">“The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self—Not Just Your ‘Good’ Self—Drives Success and Fullfillment.”</a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/the-upside-of-dark-side-emotions-with-dr-todd-kashdan-2771483/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=21751&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/the-upside-of-dark-side-emotions-with-dr-todd-kashdan-2771483/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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