PSYC 1010 Chapter : Modules 35-37

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

releasing aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relives aggressive urges. Feel-good, do-good phenomenon - people"s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. Subjective well-being - self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (ex. physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people"s quality of life. Surprising reality: we overestimate the duration of our emotions and underestimate our resiliency and capacity to adapt. Adaptation-level phenomenon - our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, lights, income) relative to neutral level defined by our prior experience. Remember: feelings of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, success, and failure are judgments we make based on our prior experience. Relative deprivation - the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. Upper and middle-income people who compare themselves with the relatively poor tend to be more satisfied with life than are their less-fortunate compatriots.