PSY 220: Study Of Good Concepts In Positive Psychology
Basic Concepts in Positive Psychology
PSY/220
When researchers speak of subjective well-being, they are referring to the study of happiness. The construct measured by researchers is to asses individuals life gratification and the regularity of positive and negative emotional proficiencies. One example is money and riches is not equivalent to bliss and most studies indicate individuals who win a great sums of money, rapidly return to the happiness they felt before winning the lottery.
I would not like to be hooked up to an ‘experience machine.’ I am human and with that being said, I feel happiness, sadness, anger and other emotions. In my opinion a world without negative emotions would lead individuals not to learn life lessons. Since learning
PSY/220
When researchers speak of subjective well-being, they are referring to the study of happiness. The construct measured by researchers is to asses individuals life gratification and the regularity of positive and negative emotional proficiencies. One example is money and riches is not equivalent to bliss and most studies indicate individuals who win a great sums of money, rapidly return to the happiness they felt before winning the lottery.
I would not like to be hooked up to an ‘experience machine.’ I am human and with that being said, I feel happiness, sadness, anger and other emotions. In my opinion a world without negative emotions would lead individuals not to learn life lessons. Since learning