Week 1: Why happiness deserves scientific interest - college Flashcards

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Why is it harder to come up with positive news events than negative news events in the last year? (2)

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(1) People suffer from negativity Bias –> negative events have bigger impact than positive events
(2) Evolutionairy perspective; human pays more attention to bad things as not to ignore danger

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Does happiness deserve scientific interest?

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Yes, people want to be happy and governments wants us to be happy

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What are 4 benefits of happier people?

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(1) They are more productive
(2) Are healthier and live longer
(3) They contribute more to society
(4) They have better social relationships

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What does science of happiness focusses on? (2)

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The antecedents of happiness
The consequences of happiness

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What does it mean to describe happiness as jingle or jangle

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jingle = one term to refer to several underlying concepts
jangle = different terms that are used to describe one larger concept

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What is the lay definition of happiness?

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Inner harmony rather than satisfaction or positive affect

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How does the tripartite model describe hedonic/subjective well-being (3)

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(1) Positive affect
(2) negative affect
(3) Cognitive life evaluations

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What is eudaemonic wellbeing? (3)

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Eudaimonia = a sense of meaning and purpose in life or good psychological functioning. Flourishing; self-actualization of one’s potential by fulfilling one’s true self
Purpose and meaning in life

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Why is it not easy to tell how happy someone will become from any decision?

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Happiness is a biased judgment: people have too much focus on one particular issue, usually something they do not have

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How do peoples views of their future happiness compared to others future happiness differ?

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People tend to be positive about themselves and negative about people they don’t know

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Is life satisfaction a bottom-up or top-down mechanism?

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Life satisfaction is a top-down mechanism because overall life satisfaction drives specific elements of domain satisfaction

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Are domain specific evaluations related

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Yes they are correlated strongly about .60, possibly influenced by common factor such as personality

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Are cognitive and affective components of well-being related?

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The association varies widely as a result of affective well-being being more variable

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Which is more important? life satisfaction or affect?

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People want to be satisfied with their life, driving by life circumstances and not momentary feelings of pleasure

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Who is more happy? people who win the lottery or become paraplegic?

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Loterij winners were not much happier than neutral control group
Paraplegics were a little less happy but still more happy compared to the unhappy

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Hedonic treadmill theory states what? How is the underlying phenomenon called

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People always have a baseline of happiness and positive/negative life events cause temporary highs and lows, but people return to their set point quickly
Hedonic adaptation

17
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What determines happiness in the happiness pie?

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Genetic setpoint (50%)
Circumstances (10%)
Intentional activity (40%)

18
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What is Seligman’s happiness formula?

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Happiness = setpoint + circumstances + voluntary actions

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What does a happy life results from?

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Engaging in intentional activities that one is passionate about and that contributes to the greater good