This paper identifies a tension between the commitment to forming rationally justified emotions and the happy life. To illustrate this tension I begin with a critical evaluation of the positive psychology technique known as ‘gratitude training’. I argue that gratitude training is at odds with the kind of critical monitoring that several philosophers have claimed is regulative of emotional rationality. More generally, critical monitoring undermines exuberance, an attitude that plays a central role in contemporary models of the happy life. Thus, prominent notions of what it takes to maintain emotion rationality and what it takes to maintain happiness are in tension. To resolve this tension, I argue that some people have good reason to depreciate critical monitoring—even while maintaining the requirement of emotion rationality that we be sensitive to facts about how our concerns are faring.

本文指出了在形成合理合理的情绪的承诺与幸福生活之间的张力。为了说明这种张力，我首先对被称为“感恩训练”的积极心理学技术进行了批判性评估。我认为，感激训练与一些哲学家声称对情绪理性进行调节的批评性监测相矛盾。更一般而言，严格的监控会破坏繁荣，这种态度在当代幸福生活模型中扮演着核心角色。因此，关于维持情感合理性和维持幸福所需的突出观念处于紧张状态。为了解决这种紧张关系，