PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Positive Illusions, Introjection, Melatonin
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Lec 09 continuation of emotion and personality. In very poor countries, economic status predicts happiness, however, once people can afford (cid:374)e(cid:272)essities, i(cid:374)(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)g fi(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ial status is(cid:374)(cid:859)t related to (cid:449)ell-being. Within affluent societies, economic growth is not accompanied by the rise in life satisfaction among the population. Thus, the absence of health and wealth bring misery, but the presence of health and wealth does not guarantee happiness. Two different models of relationship between personality and well-being. Indirect model: personality causes a person to create a certain lifestyle, and lifestyle causes emotion reactions. Part of being happy is to have positive illusions about the self, an inflated view of the self as a good person. Unpleasant emotions - anxiety, negative affectivity, or neuroticism. Person high on neuroticism is moody, touchy, irritable, anxious, unstable, pessimistic, and complaining. Neuroticism is caused by styles of information processing preferential processing of negative (but not positive) information about the self (not about others)
