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==December 1, 2010==
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==3/15/2011==
  
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===Wilson, "Introspection and Self-Narratives"===
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===Gilbert, 7, Time Bombs===
  
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:*Introspection -- flashlight metaphor -- Freud's metaphor: archaeology
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====Space, Time and Future Preferences====
  
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:*Wilson doesn't support these metaphors, seems sceptical that we get such clarity, thinks evidence supports a different view:
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:*We spatialize time because it's an abstract thing and thinking of its spatially helps make it concrete.
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:*Hedonic adaptation -- factors affecting the habituation rate -- (start list)
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:*False prediction of future pleasure -- p. 130 study on snack predictions. 
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:*Gilberts partial point -- variety has a cost… [But it doesn't follow that it's not in your happiness-interest to pay it sometimes.]
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:*Slogan of the night:  "Pleasure isn't linear."
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:*Spagetti satisfaction predictions under condition of multi-tasking, p. 136.
  
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::*"Introspection is more like literary criticism in which we are the text to be understood. Just as there is no single truth that lies within a literary text, but many truths, so are there many truths about a person that can be constructed." 162
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====Parade of Biases====
  
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:*Do we introspect too much?  
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:*Anchoring Bias (135), Sensitivity to changes, (accounts for preferences for steady income increases, even it net payout is lower).
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:*Preference for the marked down vacation, even if more costly than a marked up one.
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:*Famous Khaneman and Tversky "mental accounting" study -- (140)
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:*We compare the present to the past instead of to the possible.  (coffee example)
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:*But we also make mistakes when we compare the present to the possible.  (tv purchase example, wine example, dictionary comparison, chips/chocolate vs. chips/sardines)
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:*Loss aversion (145)  
  
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::*Real Estate story -- Do we know or show what we want? 
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===Csiksentmihalyi, Chapters 1-3===
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::*Analytic methods vs. Intuitive or behavioral
 
  
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:*People are "too good" at giving reasons for their feelings, but not necessary accurate when they do.  They rarely say, "I don't know why I feel this way..."
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====Structures of Everyday Life====
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:*Focus on how we spend our time and the state of mind/affect we experience from diff. activities in daily life
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:*Experience Sampling Method -- p. 14ff
  
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:*Major Claim -- Somtimes we use faulty information to decide what our reasons for our feelings are.  Then, using faulty reasons, we actually may alter our feelings.
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====The Content of Experience====
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:*Theoretical position, p. 21:  Wants to ask less for self-reports of happiness and more about the moods and affect that might be functionally related to happiness. 
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:*Discussion of emotions, goals, and thoughts in terms of the organization of "psychic energy", roughly, the cognitive / emotive state of my mind at a particular moment or during an activity.
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:*FLOW, p. 29ff.
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::"It is the fall involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand."
  
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::*Study in which subjects in one condition analyze their relationships and in a control condition others don't.  Analyzed condition showed greater change in feeling. 
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====How We Feel When Doing Different Things====
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:*Table 2: Quality of Experience in Everyday Activities
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:*Which is the real you?  The analyzed or unanalyzed?  Wilson is saying that you shouldn't assume the analyzed is. 
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:*Schizophrenic patient and ESM
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:*Implicit hypothesis:  People have different strategies and degrees of awareness of how to manage their affect (a form of self-care).   Happiness might be improved by developing these capacities for self-care.
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::*Poster satisfaction study
 
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:*Wilson's advice isn't to act on impulse, but to delay rational analysis, in some situations, let yourself say "Not sure how I feel"  -- gather external information and perceptions.  Those in the poster study who knew a lot about art didn't experience a change in satisfaction.
 
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::*"The trick is to gather enough information to develop an informed gutfeeling and then not analyze that feeling too much." 172
 
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:*Wilson's advice: try to become aware of implicit feelings.  
 
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::*Schultheiss and Brunstein study -- determined implicit feelings (such as need for power or affiliation) and then asked subject to predict their happiness in being in a situation that is geared to stimulate those needs.  Subjects don't accurately predict impact of the experience (they are strangers to themselves). "Consistent with many studies that find that people are not very aware of their implicit motives, people who were high in the need for affiliation and power did not anticipate that the counseling session would make them any happier or feel more engaged than other participants." 174  But "goal imager" and "prefeeling" changed that.
 
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:*Rumination -- definition 175 -- increases depression in depressed.
 
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::*Pennebaker Study -- subjects write about negative experiences from their lives and it makes them happy?  How to explain this?  How is it different from rumination?    -- Wilson claims that it's because writing involves construction of a meaningful narrative. 
 
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:*[One lesson from the chapter:  Be careful of the reasons and stories you use to narrate your experience.  You might actually conform your experience (feelings) to the narrative. But the positive side of that . . . ? Could you prime someone to write a wise narrative?]
 

Revision as of 23:31, 15 March 2011

3/15/2011

Gilbert, 7, Time Bombs

Space, Time and Future Preferences

  • We spatialize time because it's an abstract thing and thinking of its spatially helps make it concrete.
  • Hedonic adaptation -- factors affecting the habituation rate -- (start list)
  • False prediction of future pleasure -- p. 130 study on snack predictions.
  • Gilberts partial point -- variety has a cost… [But it doesn't follow that it's not in your happiness-interest to pay it sometimes.]
  • Slogan of the night: "Pleasure isn't linear."
  • Spagetti satisfaction predictions under condition of multi-tasking, p. 136.

Parade of Biases

  • Anchoring Bias (135), Sensitivity to changes, (accounts for preferences for steady income increases, even it net payout is lower).
  • Preference for the marked down vacation, even if more costly than a marked up one.
  • Famous Khaneman and Tversky "mental accounting" study -- (140)
  • We compare the present to the past instead of to the possible. (coffee example)
  • But we also make mistakes when we compare the present to the possible. (tv purchase example, wine example, dictionary comparison, chips/chocolate vs. chips/sardines)
  • Loss aversion (145)

Csiksentmihalyi, Chapters 1-3

Structures of Everyday Life

  • Focus on how we spend our time and the state of mind/affect we experience from diff. activities in daily life
  • Experience Sampling Method -- p. 14ff

The Content of Experience

  • Theoretical position, p. 21: Wants to ask less for self-reports of happiness and more about the moods and affect that might be functionally related to happiness.
  • Discussion of emotions, goals, and thoughts in terms of the organization of "psychic energy", roughly, the cognitive / emotive state of my mind at a particular moment or during an activity.
  • FLOW, p. 29ff.
"It is the fall involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand."

How We Feel When Doing Different Things

  • Table 2: Quality of Experience in Everyday Activities
  • Schizophrenic patient and ESM
  • Implicit hypothesis: People have different strategies and degrees of awareness of how to manage their affect (a form of self-care). Happiness might be improved by developing these capacities for self-care.
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