PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Economic Inequality, Frontal Lobe, Flatline
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Involve your whole well-being emotional processes but also cognitive processes and. Physiological processes as well: one implication is that what you do with your body and your mind is the emotional experience you will end up having, the emotional life you will end up. Being: second implication is that your life is very strongly determined by your emotions, and you are often out of control of these processes (eg. best times, stupidest mistakes) If your state isn"t good then these processes work against you: pre frontal cortex allows you to relax, it"s a new physiological process. Homoeconomicus: rational, self-interested beings, what motivational practice is based upon; but now who we really are. If people were rationally utility calculators, there be almost no: smoking, unsafe sex, depression, eating disorders. If people were financially motivated and self-interest there be almost no: smoking, drinking problem, knitting, speeding, churches.
