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Apr 26, 2023 · The first is a scale measuring happiness/unhappiness by participants ranking descriptive phrases on a 0 – 10 scale. The other item making up the test requires participants to give an approximate percentage of time that he/she feels happy, unhappy and neutral.
Feb 6, 2023 · By understanding the concepts of Aetiology and Teleology, individuals can gain insight into the root causes of their unhappiness and make positive changes. Whether it’s facing fears or pursuing...
In this chapter, the author examines what happiness is by looking at what it is not. Although we typically think of happiness and unhappiness as opposites, empirical research is showing that they are not—at least not on the commonsense understanding of what opposites are.
To move toward a neuroscience of happiness, a neurobiological understanding is required of how positive and negative affect are balanced in the brain. Thus, pleasure is an important component of happiness, according to most modern viewpoints.
- Morten L. Kringelbach, Kent C. Berridge
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Sep 25, 2008 · In these pages, Dan Haybron argues that people are probably less effective at judging, and promoting, their own welfare than common belief has it. For the psychological dimensions of well-being, particularly our emotional lives, are far richer and more complex than we tend to realize.
- Daniel M Haybron
May 4, 2018 · In The Pursuit of Unhappiness, Daniel Haybron has defended an emotional state theory of happiness, according to which happiness consists in a broadly positive balance of emotions, moods, and mood propensities. In this paper, I argue that Haybron’s theory should be modified in two ways.
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Jun 10, 2009 · Unhappiness can act as the goad to get you to push through those barriers. It can push you to switch jobs, get out of a relationship, move, change your habits, change your behavior, change the...
