Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychological Trauma, Physical Attractiveness, The Roots

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Alvin Segal

Document Summary

Ompare the advantages and disadvantages of experimental versus correlational research. using experiments: precise control allows cause and effect conclusions to be drawn. Thus, we cannot determine cause and effect from correlations alone. The roots of happiness: identify the various factors that are surprisingly unrelated to happiness. many commonsense notions about happiness are not accurate. Many survey studies have been conducted to explore the [ determinants of subjective well- being---individuals" personal assessments of their overall happiness or life satisfaction. ] Money the correlation between income and happiness is very weak. Age is unrelated to global estimates of happiness. Gender has little impact on subjective well-being. Parenthood good and bad aspects of parenthood balance each other out. Intelligence there is no association between iq and happiness.