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We thought that this was one of the best theories of positive psychology we have seen so far. We liked that Dr. Gilbert discredited the popular notion that children unequivocally make you happy. I think the data may show that having had kids may make you happy but caring for kids is work; science proves your intuition wrong! Gilbert's ambiguity and comparing of stimuli are two very good points. As far as the question of imagining the details, could there be a connection with visualization? More specifically, could having a hobby or event you look forward to give you something positive to imagine? We also think this ties into the baseball analogy whereby the amazing moment can change how you currently feel about something.
Patriots: Bavineau, Valeriani, Ledwith, Lord There was some disagreement in our group as to whether people are as in the moment as the speaker was suggesting. Some of us believe that there is a comparative aspect to people where we look at what others have, are doing, and the success they have as we see that success to be. There is also the understanding that this applies to past experiences as it does to future events. Other members of our group agreed with the speaker in that people are more apt to be in the moment and are not focusing on material that will make them happier. We then spoke about the video of the speaker we watch this week. We feel that there is a possibility that mental training will impact or change the accuracy of our prediction of emotions. The act of mental training will bring us into a more realistic mental understanding. Thus, our predictions would become less idealistic and more realistic on our predictions.
Dr Gilbert touched upon an aspect that our group acknowledged as the pursuit of happiness vs state of happiness. We need to be looking at the journey of happiness and not just the state of happiness because according to the contrast effect we are always going to want more. We feel Dr Gilberts experiment with the chips contradicted what he was saying about contrast effect and needs to take into effect personal preferences.
Chelsea Craig Bianca sturchio Lauren goudreau Jim morrissey Jackie nizer
There is no absolute truth. Things don't happen a certain way every time. Some people learn from experiences and project what they learned onto other situations. Some people are more likely to externalize their attributions instead of internalizing them. The people that internalize events are more likely to perceive happiness.
Our parents can't realistically prepare us for life because there is no possible way to experience all life events. Our brains have adapted to be able to project outcomes of future events, but we leave out the details which leaves room for error.
Maybe how we predict an event to happen will influence the outcome, but it will never be a completely accurate representation.
To combat Professor Gilbert's statement about people bouncing back from bad things. There is no way that you can accurately perceive emotion. So it would be difficult to graph said findings. It sounds more like he is predicting thinks about emotion.
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We thought that this was one of the best theories of positive psychology we have seen so far. We liked that Dr. Gilbert discredited the popular notion that children unequivocally make you happy. I think the data may show that having had kids may make you happy but caring for kids is work; science proves your intuition wrong!
Gilbert's ambiguity and comparing of stimuli are two very good points.
As far as the question of imagining the details, could there be a connection with visualization? More specifically, could having a hobby or event you look forward to give you something positive to imagine? We also think this ties into the baseball analogy whereby the amazing moment can change how you currently feel about something.
"The Bruins"
Jon Bellino
Lorraine Harmon
Patriots: Bavineau, Valeriani, Ledwith, Lord
There was some disagreement in our group as to whether people are as in the moment as the speaker was suggesting. Some of us believe that there is a comparative aspect to people where we look at what others have, are doing, and the success they have as we see that success to be. There is also the understanding that this applies to past experiences as it does to future events. Other members of our group agreed with the speaker in that people are more apt to be in the moment and are not focusing on material that will make them happier.
We then spoke about the video of the speaker we watch this week. We feel that there is a possibility that mental training will impact or change the accuracy of our prediction of emotions. The act of mental training will bring us into a more realistic mental understanding. Thus, our predictions would become less idealistic and more realistic on our predictions.
Dr Gilbert touched upon an aspect that our group acknowledged as the pursuit of happiness vs state of happiness. We need to be looking at the journey of happiness and not just the state of happiness because according to the contrast effect we are always going to want more. We feel Dr Gilberts experiment with the chips contradicted what he was saying about contrast effect and needs to take into effect personal preferences.
Chelsea Craig
Bianca sturchio
Lauren goudreau
Jim morrissey
Jackie nizer
There is no absolute truth. Things don't happen a certain way every time. Some people learn from experiences and project what they learned onto other situations. Some people are more likely to externalize their attributions instead of internalizing them. The people that internalize events are more likely to perceive happiness.
Our parents can't realistically prepare us for life because there is no possible way to experience all life events. Our brains have adapted to be able to project outcomes of future events, but we leave out the details which leaves room for error.
Maybe how we predict an event to happen will influence the outcome, but it will never be a completely accurate representation.
To combat Professor Gilbert's statement about people bouncing back from bad things. There is no way that you can accurately perceive emotion. So it would be difficult to graph said findings. It sounds more like he is predicting thinks about emotion.
Brandon Dion
Jess Hews
Scott Reiner
Jesse Miller
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