PSYC 1032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fear Conditioning, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Decision Rule
26 May 2017
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What makes people happy: happy vs joy. But people usually just use happiness to mean both: causes of happiness. Wealth once you have enough money to meet your basic needs, more money doesn"t increase people"s happiness. And older people on average are happier than younger people. Feel of control over your life: ex: people are unhappy when they are micromanaged at work, importance of expectations hackman. Garbage collector are happier because they find it a useful job to pay the bills. Orchestra musicians don"t feel fulfilled because orchestra is not their vision, they probably wanted to be a soloist. Expectation of what your job should be affects their happiness: lottery winners vs accident victims. Change in happiness lasts about 6 months for both. Lottery winners become unhappy because people are taking advantage of their money, tax issues, etc. Accident victims adjust and it"s a big change, but over time they adapt: hedonic treadmill.
