CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Hedonic Treadmill, Agreeableness

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Stuart Phillips

Document Summary

Martin seligman"s 5 crucial elements of well-being positive emotion engagement. Meaning accomplishment pursuing these things for their own sake. Experiment: predictions from winners, victims, and controls. predicting who will be happier in 6 months. victims, winners, and controls about the same for mundane happiness and future happiness. The impact bias: tendency to overestimate the length or intensity of future feeling states for events such as elections relationships college tests personality tests. 3 months after incident people tend to be happier than what they predicted they would be. Hedonic adaptation: people become quickly adapted to changes good or bad in order to maintain stable level of happiness. For example, you buy a new car and it makes you happy, but humans are good at adapting, so the effect soon wears off and you feel the need to buy something else. No matter how good or bad event is happiness tends to return to original level.