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Assigned

We will need most of this class to process the reading and viewing you did on "Reading Day"
McMahon, C6-Part2, “Liberalism and Its Discontents” (343-363)

SCP: Short Writing Assignment #3: Assessing Liberalism and the Money/Happiness connection

Stage 1: Please write an 1000 word maximum answer to the following question by December 5, 11:59pm.

Topic: Assessing Liberalism: In this unit, we have been assessing both the historical models of happiness in the "American Experiment," as well as contemporary economic theory and thought about the relationship between income and happiness, the adequacy of making GDP the primary policy goal, and the possibility that something about our contemporary commercial culture is working against improvements in happiness. In your essay, make a selection from the resources in the unit to address these issues. Is there a "happiness problem" in American culture?

Advice about collaboration: I encourage you to collaborate with other students, but only up to the point of sharing ideas, references to class notes, and your own notes. Collaboration is part of the academic process and the intellectual world that college courses are based on, so it is important to me that you have the possibility to collaborate. It's a great way to make sure that a high average level of learning and development occurs. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to NOT share text of draft answers or outlines of your answer. Keep it verbal. Generate your own examples.

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-===Assigned Reading===
+===Assigned===
-:*Kessler, Chapters 27-32, p.(137-165) (28)
+:*We will need most of this class to process the reading and viewing you did on "Reading Day"
+:*McMahon, C6-Part2, “Liberalism and Its Discontents” (343-363)
-===2nd Thoughts on the Satisfactions of Industrial Foods===
+===SCP: Short Writing Assignment #3: Assessing Liberalism and the Money/Happiness connection===
-:*Still thinking about some issues in Monday's reading.  Fast foods and industrial foods (IF) often involve sensory overload, high palatability, high glycemic responses, and lots of fats, salt, and sugar.  It seems like it would follow from this that industrial foods are satisfying?  Maybe.  But maybe overstimulation can be under-satisfying.
+:*'''Stage 1''': Please write an 1000 word maximum answer to the following question by '''December 5, 11:59pm.'''
+::*Topic: Assessing Liberalism: In this unit, we have been assessing both the historical models of happiness in the "American Experiment," as well as contemporary economic theory and thought about the relationship between income and happiness, the adequacy of making GDP the primary policy goal, and the possibility that something about our contemporary commercial culture is working against improvements in happiness.  In your essay, make a selection from the resources in the unit to address these issues.  Is there a "happiness problem" in American culture?
-:*Some possibilities:
+:*'''Advice about collaboration''': I encourage you to collaborate with other students, but only up to the point of sharing ideas, references to class notes, and your own notes.  Collaboration is part of the academic process and the intellectual world that college courses are based on, so it is important to me that you have the possibility to collaborate.  It's a great way to make sure that a high average level of learning and development occurs.  The best way to avoid plagiarism is to NOT share text of draft answers or outlines of your answer.  Keep it verbal.  Generate your own examples.
-::*1. IF is overstimulating.  This produces conditioned over eating. (Kessler's emphasis)
-::*2. IF is satisfying at the level of mouth taste and multi-sensory engagement, but it puts us out of sync with stomach and gut satisfactions.  (glycemic response, sense of fullness, absence of fiber, etc.) So, IF is ultimately unsatisfying.  Research suggests unsatisfying diets produce cravings.  (Try to put together research on food satisfaction and craving in relation to IF)
-::*3. Picture from the Reno heart diet.  You can eat too much food and still not be satisfied. Just as you can be overfed and undernurished. Would this be equally true of a traditional cuisine?  Arguably, you can't overeat a healthy diet. (Compare to other behaviors which humans tend to find addictive or objects of obsession. Sex and drugs.)
-===Kessler, Chapters 27-32===
+:*Prepare your answer and submit it in the following way:
+::# '''Do not put your name in the file or filename'''.  You may put your student id number in the file.  Put a word count in the file.
-:*Kessler's focus is on overeating, but much of this seems to apply to patterns of unhealthy eating as well.  So as you are thinking about today's research, even if you do not overeat, think about how well this also explains conditioning to industrial foods.
+::# In Word, check "File-->Info-->Inspect Document-->Inspect.  You will see an option to delete author information.
+::# Format your answer in '''double spaced text''' in a 12 point font, using normal margins.
-:C27: Overeating becomes more dangerous.
+::# Save the file in the ".docx" file format using the file name "AssessingLiberalism".
+::# Log in to courses.alfino.org.  Upload your file to the '''2 - Short Critical Paper dropbox'''.
-:*Strong thesis: 137
-:*Our brains are designed to focus on salient stimuli.  Salient food drives overeating.  Reinforcement learning.  Role of memory, enhanced by multi-sensory stimuli,  Once conditioning is strong, the desire to feel better can be overcome by the desire to follow the habit.  '''Deep habits don’t trigger thought or reflection.''' (Note, that is a good thing.)
-:*Hyperpalatable foods are hyper-stimulants.  They are effective in creating conditioned hyper eating.
-:C28 What Weight-Loss Drugs Can Teach Us
-:*Phen-fen - banned, but apparently effective in blocking obsessive thought about food and drugs. Indicates that they have similar underlying mechanisms.
-:*Patient: “I’m there, the food is there, but I don’t feel like eating the food.  It used to be that I would see the food and I would go completely nuts, and that doesn’t happen any longer.”
-:C29
-:*”Conditioned Hypereating”.  Governed by cues, priming, and emotion.
-:*Cues: example of being cued by a fast food place as you return from the gym.  147:  “elaborated thought”. — brain works on details, connections, plan for getting reward.  Sets up tension with conscious awareness.  “If you eat the salient food today, it’s going to be more salient tomorrow because you have more positive associations with it.  “
-:*Priming: tendency to seek a food reward more intensely once it has been tasted.  In studies of hunger, test subjects report higher levels of hunger during the first part of the meal.  149. Research supporting priming effect.  Test subjects consumed more of the food they were primed by.
-:*Emotions: some emotions drive overeating by reinforcing cues and priming.  Sadness and Anger .  In a brain imaging study (151), test subjects in whom a negative mood had been induced were more stimulated by the prospect of a milkshake than a control group.
-:*Stress also exaggerates other stimuli.  Profound stress can shut down appetite and emotion.  Transition emotions (how we feel as we change activities) make us vulnerable.
-:C30
-:*Expectations of satisfaction from a food or from eating reinforce the stimulus.   Not everyone driven to obsession by this.  The “white bear” problem.  Suppressed thoughts can become more salient because they are suppressed.
-:C31: Conditioned Hypereating emerges
-:*Research questions about hypereating.  158: obesity study showing that overweight women snacked more throughout the day than non.   In another study obese test subjects were more willing to work for food rewards than other activities that they liked as well.   Not so for non-obese.
-:*Reno Diet Heart Study:  used data to ask about associate of loss of control over eating, lack of feeling satisfied, and preoccupation with food.  50% of obese and 30% of overweight subjects showed these features. But 17% of learn.  Those showing traits of conditioned hypereating more than 2x likely to be overweight early in life.
-:*161: conditioned hyper eaters more likely to rate an aroma pleasant longer.  In brain image, heightened response to cookies, etc.
-:*considers conditioned hypereating a syndrome, cluster of symptoms.
-:C32: Tracing the roots of conditioned hypereating
-:*70s researcher, Shacter — “externality” theory of obesity.  Overeating from response to external cues, over internal.  In his “cracker study” thin people reduced subsequent consumption of crackers, but obese did not.  Theorized that they respond to presence of external stimulus over being partially full.
-:*Restrain theory.  Dieting fails due to ineffective restraint.

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