PSYC 3350 Lecture 7: Material after Midterm, March 1st, 4
13 May 2018
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o Differences in happiness of different nations, they looked at people within the us whose
failies origiall ae fro other outries → foud that if ou rak ordered the
happiess of the ethi groups, there’s a strog orrelatio → happiess is arried over
from the ethnic groups.
o Cultures vary in the importance that they ascribe to happiness.
o Wh is it that ou’re doig hat ou do?
o Did ou hoose our ajor eause ou thought ou’d e happier?
o A UBC study: students made choices between alternatives of 2 computer puzzle games:
▪ One game was described as fun, but not very useful,
▪ Another was dull but would improve their thinking skills.
▪ European canadians choose the more enjoyable games.
▪ Asian canadians still for the most part, prefer the fun game but more of them
hoose the ore useful gaes. The’re otiated ot just happiess ut also
by usefulness.
▪ What makes life more satisfying?
▪ Suh et al wanted to relate the concept of individualism and life satisfaction, how
much positive affect and their elief to lie up to ultural ors → foud i the
ost idiidualist outries, life satisfatio strogl predited people’s
overall level of positive affect.
▪ Least individualistic countries, satisfaction predicted by the extent to which
people…
▪ There are 2 different ways of considering happiness:
▪ 1) sum total of all the happy feelings that you have.
▪ 2) how you retrospectively evaluate your happiness.
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