PSY336H1 Lecture : Lecture 3
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Goals + short term have no relation to long-term wellbeing, affective forecasting predicting future emotional state. January 26, 2011: imagine being drunk and being depressed, sad people think they"ll be sad forever. The effects of significant effects wear off they go back their baseline: strong adaptive system, exceptions: prolonged helping of family member who has degenerative disease; you don"t go back to baseline right away. Incentives: work well in short term, extrinsic task person doesn"t want to do = increase reward/punishment. Intrinsic: management science: assumes people are sheeple. counterproductive when you try to motivate with carrots and sticks. Took way longer for motivated people to solve the problem: israel put fear into people. Take away emotion such as guilt: people donating blood: pay you: get money, get money + option to donate. results: get money 30, get money + option to donate 50, people have reasons why they"re donating paying undermines it.
