EDUC10057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Life Satisfaction, John Bowlby, Positive Psychology
13 Aug 2020
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Chris peterson summarizing positive psychology: other people matter: not just quantity of relationships, but deep, meaningful relationships. Belongingness hypothesis: human beings have a pervasive drive to form and maintain at least minimum quantity of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships. Meaningful relationships correlated to: happiness, positive affect, life satisfaction, physical health. Our species has evolved to form relationships we are social creatures. We form relationships easily: under adverse conditions, sharing things in common (even unpleasant) experiences, being exposed to others frequently. Ppl resist losing attachments and social bonds (even if good reason to do so) Social rejection is the #1 fear of a lot of people. Deficits in belongingness related to a range of ill effects. We feel other ppl"s emotions: thus we avoid hurting others (because we don"t want to feel their pain, thus we do things to make them happy (because we feel their happiness)
