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causes of happiness
objective vs subjective |
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objective predictors are weak (health,money, home, marriage)
Strong predictor=social network
subjective more important: how you feel about your income |
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| having kids reduces happiness |
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| happiness depends in part |
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| stable over long periods of time |
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people get used to things:
adjustment to bad things is slower and less complete than to good |
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people are not very good at judging how they'll feel about a particular outcome (sports fans, break ups)
fairly accuracte estimatnig valence and intensity but NOT in duration |
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| why does affective forecasting occur |
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| immune neglect- a tendency to not recognize how much our psych immune system will kick in to make us better |
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| cause of the fundamental attribution error |
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motivation to believe in a just world.
We feel less vulnerable to external factors influencing our life outcomes |
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| people get what they deserve in life |
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| another cause of the fundamental attribution error |
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| automatic and controlled cognitive processing |
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automatic and controlled cognitive processing:
dispotional vs situational attributions |
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dispositional- made automatically
situational- require more cognitive thought after weighing info about context |
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| automatic and controlled cognitive processing fundamental attribution error when people are distracted or busy |
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| people do not correct their initial dispositional attribution and do not take into account the context |
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| fundamental attribution error less prevelent in |
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| individualist more likely to attribute behavior to |
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| collectivists more likely to attribute behavior to |
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| US coaches vs China coaches |
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US- wins according to own team ability
China- wins according to other teams experienced difficulties |
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| Hong Kong makes more __ attributions after being primed by Western |
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| Hong kong makes more ___ attributions after being primed by Chinese |
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amount of wealth,
education, and occupational prestige a person
and his or her family enjoy |
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| ppl from lower social class are more ___ |
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| are dispositions fixed or flexible |
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similar to incremental/entity theories – but focusing
on personality instead of intelligence |
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| Three important dimensions of attributions |
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internal vs external
stable vs unstable
global vs specific |
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| I caused this versus this was caused by something outside of me. |
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| This is something temporary vs. it will always be like this. |
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This is informative about everything vs. this is informative
about this one limited domain." |
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