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Aristotle and The Virtue Theory of Happiness

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dispositions of character that lead a person towards eudaimonic well-being

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The Epicureans

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pleasures achieved by avoiding unnecessary pain

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Four major theories the Greeks had on happiness

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1) The contemplative life 2)The active life 3)The fatalistic life 4)Hedonism

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Incongruence

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The degree of disparity between one’s self-concept and one’s actual experience

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_____ is an important aspect of self development

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Incongruence

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The good life and its positive elements are

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connection to others, positive individual traits, life regulation

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Five main areas we can explore to increase our wellbeing

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positive emotions, engagement, positive relationships, meaning, accomplishments

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Hedonism

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Is the oldest approach to well-being and happiness pleasure as the basic comment of the good life

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The early Hebrews thought about the divine command Theory of happiness

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submission to gods supreme authorities and rejection of pleasure

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Socrates

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most responsible for the new direction in Greek intellectual life

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Aristotle and Habits

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Aristotle and Eudaimonia

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Dan Gilbert ‘ The psychology of your future self’

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Daddy of positive psychology

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Impact Bias

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Our prefrontal cortex overestimates how happy people are or aren’t depending on our thoughts. We are not good at predicting how things will affect us long term

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Synthetic happiness

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Real happiness accepting things you can not change

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Setpoint theory

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Suggests that people have a stable point of happiness that they may temporarily stray from, but to which they return in the long run

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Focalism

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the tendency for people to give too much weight to one particular piece of information when making judgments and predictions

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Pearls assumption of unhappiness

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the distorted glorification of past and unrealistic expectations of the present

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Ted talk on Bernie brown

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The power of vulnerability, we make uncertain things certain.

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Grit

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your ability to achieve longterm goals

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Humanistic perspective

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Phenomenological/existentialism. Optimistic view of human potential

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Carl Rogers

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Self-concept our image or perception of ourselves

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Congruence

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Self-concept meshes well with actual experience

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Incongruence

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Self-concept does not mesh well with actual experience

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Higgins Theory of Self discrepancy

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actual self (belief about who we think we are) Ought-self (who we should be) Ideal self is who we want to be

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SWB

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Ed Diener looks at happiness from the individuals