PSY 348 Lecture 10: PSY348 Lecture 10
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= the study of the conditions under which people become happy and flourish. Traditional medical model: painful state neutral state. Positive psychology: neutral state state of happiness/joy. Longitudinal study of nuns (began in 1986): assessed the autobiographical sketches writing upon joining the sisterhood, quantified the amount of positive emotion in these exceptions and correlated it with how long the nuns lived. Top quarter (most happy): 54% lived to 94. Negative emotions: narrowed attention, specific action tendencies (fight or flight) Positive emotions: broadens attention, nonspecific action tendencies, broaden hypothesis, positive emotions broaden perception, thoughts, and actions, visual attention. What letter do you see first? (t/l image: more creative and varied responses. Cracker, union, rabbit: answer: jack , build hypothesis, positive emotions promote the development of psychosocial resources, example (fredrickson et al. , 2008): Workers completed a 9 week meditation program (designed to incorporate positive emotion) Dependent variable (dv): change in personal resources (social support, resilience, relationship satisfaction)
