This document provides an overview of a psychology course on human happiness. It discusses various philosophical and scientific perspectives on what constitutes happiness, factors that influence happiness such as relationships, health, age, culture and money. It also examines the evolutionary origins of happiness and prosocial behaviors like compassion. Key findings mentioned include that social relationships and work are among the biggest predictors of happiness.
72. Darwin: Caregiving species and Survival of the Kindest sympathy, he argued, “ will have been increased through natural selection; for those communities, which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring ” (Darwin, 1871/2004, p.130).
144. Approach and Inhibition BIS REWARD Optimism -.22* .08 Negative affect .42** .05 Positive Affect -.06 .28** Happiness .24**
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147. Unrealistic Optimism (Weinstein, 1980) COMPARATIVE JUDGMENT OF LIFE EVENT OWN VERSUS OTHERS’ CHANCES Like post graduation job 50.2 Own your own home 40.3 Live past 80 11.3 Have a mentally gifted child 6.2 Have drinking problem -58.3 Attempt suicide -55.9 Divorce after a few years of marriage -48.7 Heart attach before age 40 -38.4 Become sterile -31.2 Develop gum problems -12.2
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212. A Person of Humanity, wishing to establish his own character, also establishes the character of others (Confucius) The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination (Shelley).
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239. Laughter = La petite vacation) Laughter signals suspension of serious Meaning Laughter and exhalation; shift to PANS Means of managing conflict
265. IMAGINE The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination (Shelley).