PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rock Climbing, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flor
16 Apr 2016
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Why we watch tv and why it is diicult to stop. The average american adult watch an average of 4 hours of tv a day. The more educated you are, the more guilty you feel and are thus more likely to set a goal to watch less. There"s new evidence that even though young people are not siing in front of the tv they are doing similar things: watching on devices, watching neflix, suring the web: similar experience as siing in front of tv. Concept of low by csziksentmihalyi: related to watching tv. Related materials: mihaly csikszentmihalyi: flow, the secret to happiness ted. Finding flow: the psychology of engagement with everyday life (masterminds series) by mihaly. It turns out there are many surfers here in malary town. These surfers like to surf especially in january and february. Wondered why people like ding things that are dangerous when there are no obvious rewards- and why people work so hard at it.
