Happiness / Emotions

Question 1

Importance to rate and direction of change of circumstance (over absolute level)

Answer 1

• we just have to be better than others in terms of our circumstance to increase our fitness (increase gene market share)
• we want more resource = material acquisition

Question 2

Emotions are less permanent than they feel

Answer 2

they are there to motivate us, not to reward us, to increase our fitness

Question 3

Examples that emotions are tools that our genes use to manipulate us

Answer 3

• people that goes through terrible accidents go through a period of decreasing happiness, but after a while, their happiness gradually increase back to original state
• people who won the lottery see a drastic increase in happiness then decrease overtime back to the same level of happiness as the general population
• sex makes people feel pleasure, thus making people want to do it again
• significant other feel jealous which makes them want to be a better version of themselves