Haidt Happiness Hypothesis

Ch. 5 The Pursuit of Happiness (Haidt) pp. 81-102 1. Compare the main ideas of The Consolation of Philosophy from Ch. 2 and of Ecclesiastes on pp. 81-82. 2. How do we experience enjoyment differently from the animals? Why dont we enjoy life more than they do? Whats the problem or trick with reinforcement as a source of pleasure? 3. develop and give examples of 2 types of positive affect according to Davidson. Which one gives us more happiness? 4. What is the progress principle? 5. Explain the adaptation principle, habituation of neurons, and the hedonic treadmill. . Describe early happiness hypotheses (Buddha, stoics). Do these theories of happiness suggest that we hide from the world in order to find wild pansy? 7. Describe the relationship between marriage and happiness. Whats the reverse correlation between marriage and happiness (reverse does not mean negative)? 8. hark factors which are strongly associated with happiness and the ones which are not but most of us believe that they should lead to happiness (pp. 88-89). 9. Explain the main components of happiness linguistic rule and describe the research that it is based on. 10.Name the external conditions that have strong effect on happiness according to Haidt (pp. 92-94). 11. Describe the experience sampling method. 12. What are the characteristics of accrue? How is flow different from physical pleasures? 13. Whats the difference between pleasures and gratifications according to Seligman? 14. How can we increase pleasures and how can we find our gratifications? 15. Why do people take goals that work against their happiness? 16. What is the difference between conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption? 17. Explain the paradox of choice.