![]() ![]() Flow is about "doing" without thinking about what you are doing. The mind doesn't wander, time flies and you are oblivious to your surroundings. What is flow and how often do people experience flow in their daily lives? - Flow: to be un-self-consciously absorbed. Describe evidence for this hypothesis? - People in countries in which equal rights are conferred to minorities and women are happier than those countries that don't particularly the men Happy people experience flow. If intentions are important, values embraced by some countries should lead to a higher level of happiness among its citizens compared to those countries that don't embrace those values. USA is somewhere in the middle of pack, on the low side. Least happy are ex-communist countries: Ukraine, Russia, Romania at the bottom. As a group people in Latin American countries are happier than other regions. Which countries are the happiest and which ones are the least happy? -Happiest countries are Colombia, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland, Mexico. Because people in different cultures have different world views and different value hierarchies, the country a person lives in should influence his happiness. Pursuit of personal happiness is a primary goal in Western cultures, whereas many Asian countries prefer a sense of contentment from doing their duty toward family and community. ![]() Is this true? Studies of college students over 20 years indicate that students who had the goal of making money were not as happy 20 years after graduating from college as those students who had other goals Is happiness defined the same way in all cultures? - NO. Noise, long commutes, or interpersonal conflict What do studies of identical twins and fraternal twins tell us about the importance of genetics to happiness? - 50% of ones satisfaction with life comes form genetics How important are intentions, the third factor involved in happiness to an individual's subjective sense of well-being? 40% of intentions account for a persons happiness If intentions are important to happiness differences in individual goals and values should be important to happiness. Loss of a love one (particularly a child) or loss of job Lottery winners report that experiences that gave them pleasure in the past, prior to winning the lottery, are no longer pleasurable Describe exceptions to the findings predicted by Lyken's Set Point Theory. Going to a restaurant for pizza when you rarely go out to dinner versus going out for a pizza when you frequently dine at expensive resturants Give examples to clarify what Adaptation Level Theory is saying. That is, the reward value of the positive experience is determined by comparing the experience with recent positive experiences. How does adaptation level theory account for the diminished reward value? -According to Adaptation Level Theory, a judgment about the value of a positive experience (how rewarding it is or its incentive value) is based on one's most recent experiences with reward (we always make relative judgments rather than absolute judgments). Changes in the Adaptation Level of an individual also causes a change in the reward value of experiences that a person has. in the momentĢ.Habituation causes a decrease in the reward (incentive) value of experiences. how much unhappiness would you feel at the loss of others? resilient people 1 and 2 don't correlate value what you value is more important than hedonic states happiness 50% heritable/innate 2 forms of measuring happiness 1. no error in saying death of loved one is terrible death seems bad and is bad from perspective of individual's goals/beliefs measure of love 1. sacrifice for a cause) prospective errors - motivational hedonism is wrong death of one's spouse seems bad evolutionary argument natural selection couldn't care less about individual happiness behavioral argument people do things that can't be motivated by desire for happiness (ex. colonoscopy feels bad phenomenological argument - the world seems flat and meaningless to the depressed ![]() Seeming goodness/badness - object of emotion/desire seems good or bad ![]()
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