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Stimulus Material 2020 (“High income improves evaluation of life but not…
Stimulus Material 2020
“High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being,”
from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS)
- Emotional well-being is directly connected to the emotional quality of an individual's everyday experience, that is the frequency and intensity of joy, stress, sadness, anger, and affection which makes one's life pleasant or not.
- Life evaluation refers to people's thoughts about their life
- Emotional well-being satiates with high income and life evaluation does not
- Emotional well-being is sensitive to socioeconomic status and life evaluation is sensitive to circumstances that bring positive and negative emotions
- Two essential questions: "How satisfied are you with your life?" and "How happy are you these days?". Common conclusion: income is more related to satisfaction than to happiness
Big Daddy's Last Dance (Video)
- Drawing from the Haitian and European influences, jazz funerals are a tradition almost entirely exclusive to New Orleans, it opens with a brass band performing solemn marches and dirges as family and friends accompany the deceased to a burial.
- The band breaks into a more upbeat and swinging number.
- This tradition can lead to a new perspective of the funeral, which is always represented as a sad event, but now it is a festive one.
- Instead of being sad and grieved, people at the funeral danced and sang, showing how they deal with pain and grief and how they transform an unhappy situation into a more cheerful moment.
“The Story of An Hour”
by Kate Chopin (1894)
- The news of her husband's death had a huge impact on Mrs. Mallard's life; it broke her.
- When in her room, staring out the window, she began to felt something, though not knowing what it was. Her pulse beats fast and did not stop to ask if it were a monstrous joy that held her.
- She wondered about death but also thought of the years that would belong to her completely and welcomed them.
- "There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for
herself. "
- Love is an unsolved mystery and had no value in comparison with what she was now feeling.
- In the end, her husband wasn't dead, but unfortunately, she was.
- Happiness kills.
"Genes, Economics, and Happiness"
by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Nicholas A. Christakis, Nicholas A. Christakis, and Bruno S. Frey.
- Happiness research has become one of the main subjects in economics in recent years, its main goal is to explain the determinants of individual life satisfaction or happiness.
- Genetic factors have a great influence on individual subjective well-being.
- It is estimated that the heritability of happiness at 33%, which indicates that about one-third of the variance in individual life satisfaction can be attributed to genetic influences.
- It provides evidence that genes matter for subjective well-being and to encourage economists to consider the importance of biological difference.
"The Happiness Project"
by Andrew O'Hagan
- Walt Disney wanted to build a place that would stand against the horrors of the known world.
- In Disneyland, we feel homesick for a home that never really existed, yet everything we care about originates from a set
of narcissistic compulsions that Disney embraced.
- It gives life to the idea that happiness is a creation, something made rather than a beautiful lie.
- People can hardly live with happiness because of the fear that it would suddenly end.
- Enchantment is a melting pot, but we remain ourselves in the end.
- Disneyland is only a democracy for the ones that can afford to get in, and, even then, your power will continue to pressure your sense of freedom.
"On Virtue and Happiness"
by John Stuart Mill
- Utilitarian doctrine: happiness is desirable, and all other things are desirable because, in the end, it leads to it.
- Each person desires his own happiness
- Everything means to achieve the ultimate goal: happiness
- For example the love for money, it is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but is desired in and for itself; the desire to possess money is stronger than the desire to use it.
- "Money is desired not for the sake of an end, but as part of the end."
- Nothing is desired except happiness; whatever is desired otherwise is a mean that leads to happiness
“Have You Renounced Pleasure?” from The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams
- Temporarily enjoyment comes from our senses, however, according to the Buddhist, seeking happiness through sensory gratification is useless.
- There are two types of happiness: the enjoyment of pleasure through our senses and also happiness at a deeper level of our mind, such as through love, compassion, and generosity. The latter characterized as true joy.
- Today, in a materialistic life, people seem more concerned with sensory experiences; that is why their satisfaction is brief since their happiness is so dependent on material stimuli.
- The more we experience pleasure, the more we become indifferent to its effects and take it for granted.
- There are 4 brain circuits that influence our lasting well-being:
- Our ability to maintain positive states
- Our ability to recover from negative states
- Our ability to focus and avoid mind-wandering
- Our ability to be generous
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