PSC 126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Prefrontal Cortex, Positive Psychology, Solitary Confinement

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22 Mar 2017
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Self-help industry (a lot of information on how to be happy) oprah. Desire for happiness drives people to do different things. Cure of cancer through self help and happiness (memoir sold over 35m copies) louise haye. Happiness research: looks at hormones, scale of 1-10. Happy ones have better relationships, better jobs: what makes people happy, wealthier, healthier, happier, children often make people less happy, money does cause people to be happy, marriage does too. Life is change and money is going to change you. Depends on where you start in terms of how much money will affect you. Use money correctly and use money to help charity/family; will be happier: use money wrong (drugs) less happy. Being happy takes work, being miserable is easy. Not necessarily true that money + happiness (researched: people aren"t good at predicting at what will and what won"t make them happy. Average people get thrown into extraordinary situations.

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