PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Prefrontal Cortex, Social Rejection, Stye

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People differ from each other in their emotional reactions, even to the same events. Happiness is conceived by researchers in two ways: in terms of a judgement that life is satisfying, in terms of the predominance of positive compared with negative emotions of one"s life. People with a lot of pleasant emotions in their lives tend to judge their lives as satisfying and vice versa. Part of being happy is to have positive illusions about the self -- an inflated view of one"s own characteristics as a good, able, and desirable person. Happy people: are less abusive and hostile. Chapter 13 emotion and personality: are more helpful, creative, energetic, forgiving, trusting, report fewer diseases, report satisfying relationships. Sex differences: women diagnosed with depression twice as often as men, but men are at least twice as likely as women to become alcoholics real rate is generally pretty equal.

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