PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Great Year, Life Satisfaction, Positive Psychology
16 Apr 2017
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Class finishes at the usual break (4:15pm) What personality factors are associated with individual differences in level of well-being? (stability of happiness seems to be very genetically based and not that changeable. You probably have some sense as to where you fall in a normal distribution in terms of your steady state of happiness (and where your close friends and family fall) There are also events which can make us feel happy about our lives (transient happiness) Prof laughs about the fact that his cats are only 3 and he thinks about how sad he will feel when they die (in about. Often these two can come together but most often, we have to sacrifice one for the other. Hedonic: happiness, subjective well-being, think of all the negative and positive things if positive things outweigh negative things, then we are happy.
