PSYC1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Alain De Botton, Hedonic Treadmill, Impact Bias
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Adaptive role of sadness - receive comfort, most commonly encountered by practicing psychologists. Assimilation - imposing internal structures on the external world (me). negative mood - new or challenging situation. Accommodation - modify internal structures in accordance with external constraints. then will follow social norms and attend to concrete stimuli. bene ts of memory, judgement, motivation, strategic interpersonal behaviours. Memory - distortion will occur less when negative mood than when positive mood (when in uenced by others giving misleading information/leading question). Interpersonal skills - cautious, neg mood creates polite elaborate and hedging. Happiness is made up of having positive emotions and the absence of negative emotions. Also doing well in the world (subjective well-being). Correlations between happiness and success, love/ful lling relationships, good mental and physical health. Signals of happiness; eg. smiles. stimulate reward centres in the brains of others, makes others feel happy, leads to success in work and relationships.
