Week 4: very happy people, striving for greater happiness - literature

Question 1

How can happiness interfere with well-being as wrong type of happiness?

Answer 1

(1) Hubristic pride - pride without the stimulus
(2) absence of guilt and embarassement

Question 2

Name 3 differences between western and eastern cultures in happiness types

Answer 2

(1) arousal, Chineses are more low-arousal
(2) social orientatation, Japanese mor social feelings such as guilt
(3) Emphasis in social harmony of personal hedonic experience

Question 3

give 2 ways of evidence why life circumstances have an effect on happiness?

Answer 3

(1) In developing countries, income and well-being have a stronger relationship
(2) if it did not matter, why use differences between Denmark and Sierra leone

Question 4

What are 3 criteria for a positive psychology intervention?

Answer 4

(1) must target some positive variable
(2) observably affects the positive variable through experimentation
(3) evidence that change in happiness was caused by a change in manipulated variable

Question 5

What are 2 subforms of multidimensional approach of purpose?

Answer 5

(1) Purpose itself - aspiration or goals individuals have
(2) coherent - comprehension about one’s life

Question 6

What are the 4 different types of savoring?

Answer 6

(1) Sharpening perception - focus on sensory experiences and senses
(2) memory building - focus on significant moments
(4) reminisence - non sexual experiences
(4) Relishing healthy aspects of relationship

Question 7

What are 4 benefits of optimism interventions?

Answer 7

(1) more positive effect
(2) Decrease in negative expectations
(3) Decrease in pain sensitivity
(4) Faster recovery after surgery