PSYC 353 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dysphoria, Schadenfreude

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 353
• Professor: Thomas Srull

Document Summary

One of the criticisms of psych is that we haven"t psychology in general have not sufficiently taken into the account of temporal dimension of life: things that occur over weeks/months not pay attention on temporal dynamics; but always 1 hour experiment and make judgments from that. It"s only to the degree that you appreciate it, somewhere you have in the back of your mind that i will not be here forever to the degree you realize that you will get off your bed and do something, to the degree that you realize that i will not be here forever and appreciate what you do have, if we are oblivious to the fact that our time is limited, we will never motivate to do sth or appreciate the beauty of the world. Scholars of theoretical physics, anthropology, astronomy, and philosophy have written extensively about the perception of time, in contrast, psychologists have remained conspicuously silent on this topic .