PSYC 3325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Automatic Negative Thoughts, Heritability, Positive Illusions
2 Apr 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Content of emotional life: the typical emotions a person is likely to experience over time. What good is happiness: happiness correlates with marriage, longevity, self-esteem, and job satisfaction, causal direction: success happiness or happiness success, longitudinal studies. If happiness precedes success, then happiness success: happiness comes before positive outcomes in many areas of life, including work, relationships, mental and physical health, and longevity, experimental studies. It is easy to put an extravert in a good mood: the best predictor of responsiveness to negative mood induction was neuroticism. It is easy to put a high-neuroticism person in a bad mood: personality acts like an amplifier of life events. Unpleasant emotions: anxiety, depression, and anger are viewed as having dispositional characteristics. Biology of depression: neurotransmitter theory of depression: depression may be the result of neurotransmitter imbalance at the synapses. Involves norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine: drugs used to treat depression target these neurotransmitters.
