A study designed by Seligman, et. al., (2005) developed five happiness exercises and one placebo control exercise. This implementation was one of the first empirical studies to test positive psychology interventions for increasing happiness. Two of those exercises I have…
In the articles titled “The Secret to Deeper Happiness Is Simpler Than You Might Think” by Ginny Graves (2017) and “Happiness Is Other People” by Ruth Whippman (2017), both authors acknowledged that the source of happiness is important. Graves delivered her stand objectively and professionally, explaining that the source of happiness should come naturally by pursuing activities that coincide with one’s values and comes within oneself. In contrast, Whippman was overreacting and informal in her explanation that happiness from within had led to a communication issue with people spending lesser time connecting with other people. Graves, as a whole, delivered an article that had a stronger argument by quoting reliable sources from different professions that were respectable in their field and utilizing the modes of persuasion to convince the readers.…
So I've been doing this experiment were I've been smiling to more people and being more friendly towards people since I am a somewhat shy person around strangers. So what I did on my first day of my mini experiment was just start smiling more and then by being kind of stalker like I observed their behavior. the funny thing was that most people that smiled back seemed to just have a better day. The funny thing is since I haven't really told anyone about my little expiremnet one of my friends noticed that I was smiling more often. Then I realized that I was generally happier since I started this expiremnet because now I talk more to people and am not as…
recently read The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin, a book filled with insightful tips and personal experiences from the author herself that helped guide me into a happier and healthier mental state. Rubin chronicles her adventures during the year she spent testing scientific research and popular culture lessons. She approached happiness from a different lens than I probably would have, which is why I liked it so much.…
The Broaden- and- build theory created by Barbara Fredrickson (2001) describes how positive emotions open up our thinking and actions to new possibilities, and how this expansion can help build physical, psychological, and social resources that promote well-being (Baumgardner, 2009). In correlation as suggested by Fredrickson (2001), positive emotions include joy, interest, contentment, pride and love. They all provide the ability to broaden one’s momentary thought-action repertoires and help build their personal resources (Baumgardner, 2009). The benefits of positive emotions are more general and long-term rather than the…
This chapter, titled Feeling Free, is all about freedom and humans need to feel it. Ziyad Marar begins the chapter comparing happiness to freedom, saying how “[freedoms] current expression has a relatively recent and local” (Marar 39), which is similar to his view on happiness. Marar goes on saying how people have been striving for freedom, but claims more freedom brings bad consequences. People are blinded by mass media, the consumer society, management gurus, therapists and Hollywood who all relentlessly preach about freedom and self-expression. He ends the first section by stating that people need to “celebrate freedom without denying its corrosive qualities;…
A. Multiple Choice ( 1 point each, 30 points in total) 1. The word big is flashed on a screen. A mental picture of the word big represents a __________ code the definition large in size represents a __________ code sounds like pig represents a ________code. (C) A.structural phonemic semantic B.phonemic semantic structural C.structural semantic phonemic D.phonemic structural semantic 2. Carl Rogers is to ________, as Abraham Maslow is to ________. (B) A. social cognitive humanistic B. unconditional positive regard hierarchy of needs C. environmental psychological D. free will externally controlled 3. Miles is listening as his mother rattles through a list of 15 or so things that he needs to remember to pack for an upcoming trip.…
What is the basic idea behind Kohlberg’s theory of moral development? Explain the distinction between the morality of decisions and the morality of the reasoning behind decisions?…
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you summarize the major assumptions and fundamental questions associated with psychological testing. Address the following in your paper:…
Traditional psychology appeared to explain the development of mental disorders and provided a framework for the treatment of these disorders or emotional difficulties. This started in the earlier 1900’s with Sigmund Freud, but holes began to appear in this first global theory. The theory explained behavior in terms of conditioning and reinforcement. Psychoanalytic theory used to explain emotional problems and psychoanalysis was the treatment preferred, which often failed. There were so many experiences influencing their observations that we had a variety of different paradigms.…
In the world today, it has been said that having a successful life and a career will make you happy. Moreover, longitudinal studies shows that happiness precedes as well as follows success and many of the effects of positive emotions were parallel by experimental research that induced positive affect in well-controlled studies positive emotions seem to build people’s intellectual, psychological, and social resources that contribute to enhanced happiness, as well. Having success in life is an enjoyable thing when it is involving happiness with positive behaviors. It’s like enjoying something every day, every week, and waking up just to go to work. Have you known somebody, or maybe you have done this yourself, always complain about going to work, or don’t…
The one thing that I believe research has not studied on when it comes to happiness or unhappiness, is music. Music can turn anyone's mood into a grand old mood. There are so many times that I felt like pulling my own eyes out just because I was so upset or be coming stressed to the max. Once the tunes go on the feeling of joy flows through my body and all around my mind, releasing joy and laughter. Positive emotions, no longer negative…
In Theodore Isaac Rubin’s essay, Competition and Happiness, from his book Reconciliation: Inner peace in an Age of Anxiety, he believes that people’s ability to lead happy and satisfying lives is limited by competition. Rubin believes competition brings out the worst in people. Competition encourages emotions such as jealousy, envy, and paranoia. These negative emotions indicate that competition creates a negative and sometimes hostile environment. The negative atmosphere that competition creates would then limit people’s abilities to lead happy lives. I agree with Rubin’s views between the links of happiness and competition because I feel people cannot lead happy lives if they are feeling jealousy, envy, or paranoia.…
Eastern – It’s common using Chinese drawing paper and Chinese ink. This ink has been spread well on the paper and the color is monotonous. Besides, it’s very hard to paint again on painting which has…
The emergence of positive psychology has led to a change in the focus of researchers interested in the psychological phenomena.…