PSYC 3302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unbridled, Extraversion And Introversion, Hedonic Treadmill
10 Apr 2016
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Character strengths and virtues monday february 9, 2015. The idea that when good/bad things happen the feeling lasts for a while, but we tend to eventually reach a baseline again; adaptaion. Set points, non-neutral set points (we tend to lean towards posiive). E. g. winning the lotery happy at irst, but then return to baseline. I. e. it is easy to overstate this in either direcion it is not true that you will be happy forever if something good happens, and not true that you will never be happy about things. The mediators" posiive emoions, posiive thoughts, posiive behaviours, need saisfacion. May relate to broaden and build theory over ime these things build wellbeing. But this glosses over variaion that needs further research. Efort and persistence are needed for lasing change. Also, adaptaion to the exercises it becomes normal and loses its efect ater doing it for so long. Yet unbridled happiness pursuit is not without potenial problems.
