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The percentage of descriptions of real-life instances of relief reported in Study 2, split by the type of relief precursor (panel A) and life domain (panel B).
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Despite being implicated in a wide range of psychological and behavioral phenomena, relief
remains poorly understood from the perspective of psychological science. What complicates the study of relief is that people seem to use the term to describe an emotion that occurs in two distinct situations: when an unpleasant episode is over, or upon realiz...
