Chapter 12: Happiness and the Positive Emotions Flashcards
Three Dimensions of Good Life
a happy life
a meaningful life
a psychologically rich life
Resilience
- 55%-85% are in this category
people who aren’t distressed and find meaning through learning and wisdom after their traumatic experience(s)
Trauma Responses (3)
Resilience
Delayed
Recovering
Resilience Paradox
it is so difficult to measure, and predictions of resilience are weakly correlated with actual outcomes, but you can tag different resilience aspects in a person
Flexibility sequence (3)
- Context sensitivity: evaluate (context)
- Repertoire: select regulatory strategy
- Feedback monitoring: monitor decide whether to stop, maintain, adjust, or select another regulatory strategy
Yumbo Minsky
happiness interventions are used and though they work, doing them too often doesn’t because people easily habituate, especially to positive emotions
Enthusiasm
pleasure from anticipating a reward
- nucleus accumbens is activated when given an unexpected reward, and decreased when expected reward doesn’t appear
- more local focus
Contentment
beta endorphins release dopamine, which slows down behaviour
- perhaps helps with memory
- hypothalamus responsible for the satiation response to eating
- more heuristic dependency
Pride
a person’s emotional response to his/her achievement or being admired by people
Authentic pride
based on the accurate assessment of one’s accomplishments/worth of admiration
Hubristic pride
based on the idea that someone is inherently better than others and their ability isn’t attributed to effort
Attitude
combination of beliefs, feelings, and behaviour directed toward someone, something, or a category
- longer lasting than an emotion
Russell et al’s Study
love is a prototype!
- love fits into certain contexts and sentences but others
Prototypical love examples
parent and child
romantic relationships
close friends
family members
Bowlby’s 3 Biological Foundations for Bonding within Families
Attachment
Sex
Caregiving
Cognitive shift
a necessary component of amusement; a shift away from perceived target/meaning to thinking about it from another perspective
- background does matter
Awe
elicited by oneself feeling small in comparison (to something), or finding something difficult to comprehend
- facilitates cognitive accommodation
Cognitive accommodation
taking in an environment and taking good note of it instead of operating on one’s usually narrow lens
- need for cognitive closure and certainty
Hope
a high agency in a challenging situation and generating plans to achieve what one has set out to do
Optimism
an expectation that mostly good things will happen
- unrealistic optimism is very high in the us
- tend to perceive a higher level of agency
