Week 4: very happy people, striving for greater happiness - literature Flashcards
How can happiness interfere with well-being as wrong type of happiness?
(1) Hubristic pride - pride without the stimulus
(2) absence of guilt and embarassement
Name 3 differences between western and eastern cultures in happiness types
(1) arousal, Chineses are more low-arousal
(2) social orientatation, Japanese mor social feelings such as guilt
(3) Emphasis in social harmony of personal hedonic experience
give 2 ways of evidence why life circumstances have an effect on happiness?
(1) In developing countries, income and well-being have a stronger relationship
(2) if it did not matter, why use differences between Denmark and Sierra leone
What are 3 criteria for a positive psychology intervention?
(1) must target some positive variable
(2) observably affects the positive variable through experimentation
(3) evidence that change in happiness was caused by a change in manipulated variable
What are 2 subforms of multidimensional approach of purpose?
(1) Purpose itself - aspiration or goals individuals have
(2) coherent - comprehension about one’s life
What are the 4 different types of savoring?
(1) Sharpening perception - focus on sensory experiences and senses
(2) memory building - focus on significant moments
(4) reminisence - non sexual experiences
(4) Relishing healthy aspects of relationship
What are 4 benefits of optimism interventions?
(1) more positive effect
(2) Decrease in negative expectations
(3) Decrease in pain sensitivity
(4) Faster recovery after surgery