PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Psych, Affective Forecasting, Hedonic Treadmill
15 Aug 2020
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Impact bias: the tendency to overestimate the hedonic impact of future events. When surveying paraluzed accident victims and state lottery winners Winners were not happier than controls (past, present, or future general happiness) Winners took less pleasure from mundane events than controls. Paraplegics rated their past as happier than controls actually. Our ability to adapt to changes in life circumstances. Humans are remarkable at getting used to changes in their lives. New things boost our happiness for a short while, but then we go back to our baseline. Study with dv of students rating happiness after being placed into a dorm. There were two ivs ( dorms were highly desired or undesirable and. Overtime desirable and undesirable dorms got same levels of happiness. In order to maintain balanced levels of wellbeing, individuals need to meet their basic needs (~k/yr). More than that will do little to enhance happiness.
