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To configure a result, researchers produced a correlational study. There were many aspects to this study in order to acquire a more exact result. For example: researchers collected
In the short essay of “What Happiness Is” by Eduardo Porter, he gives explicit details pertaining to the complex word, happiness. In its own term, happiness is defined as, the state of being happy. According to Porter’s findings on happiness, he says that psychologists and economists believe this: “Most psychologists and economists who study happiness agree that what they prefer to call “subjective well-beings” comprises three parts: satisfaction meant to capture how people judge their lives measured up against their aspirations; positive feelings like joy; and the absence of negative feelings like anger” (457). Porter suggests that this does exist and that because it does it helps individuals through certain times, like: hardships, economy, family, country, sickness, and even death. He is saying that because happiness exists, individuals are able to overcome obstacles in their life, and are able to live longer and healthier. Porter does focus on the main issues and key abstract views of the word happiness. He covers important issues, by giving detail; he talks about the views of psychologists and economists’ views. “ In 1980s a new discipline called Prospect Theory—also known as behavioral economics—deployed the tools of psychology to analyze economic behavior” (458).…
Reading the article Happy" by Pharrell Williams: Why This Song Has Grabbed The Nation by Eamon Ford we can see his interest in a phenomenon he presents to us, analyzing and feeding information to us. A part that stands out in the beginning of this is his justification of writhing this article, "the crowd at the World Indoor Bowls Championship in Great Yarmouth clapping and grooving along" his writing from that sentence displays that it’s a song many people enjoy and from many age groups. He puts us in a scenery we can image and then proceeds to show the relationship between the earlier statement and how many cd`s have been sold in the Uk as well as how many times it plays on the radio. Forde shows us how they may relate how the people in the stadium may know the song through the times of listening to it on the radio,…
Jennifer Senior discusses her research concerning positive psychology and whether or not happiness is teachable and highlights some of the darker sides of happiness. To start the article, Senior reveals her score on her test from the Authentic Happiness Inventory. The test designed by Chris Peterson of the positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. This test is intended to numerically score ones level of happiness. In a scale of 1 to 5, Jennifer got a grade of 2.88. This indicated she was below average for most rankings such as “age, education level, gender and occupation” (422). Senior states she is at the 50 percent mark for her given zip code. She stated that liking her job was helpful to her happiness and that her religious views did not. She also stated that she believes unhappy thoughts can take over ones thinking. I decided to find what the literal definition of happiness was, to better understand this research.…
When criminals are arrested and about to be tried in front of a jury of their peers and a judge, they are most likely will be offered a plea deal. Now this plea deal if it is accepted by the offender will stand as their punishment for the crime committed without having to go through court and trial which in some cases helps to spare the victims from having to testify in front of the person that had wronged them. Rape victims are the ones that are the most beneficial from plea bargaining, they do not have to face the offender that brought them such harm. On another note though these offenders are not serving the time that they would originally be given if gone to trial so the victims feel as though there is an injustice to plea bargaining. People that are harmed want their offenders to serve the most time they can so that they are given time to heal and recover from these inhumane acts of committed against them. “The Bureau of Justice Statistics, after studying partial data on state-court felony prosecutions nationwide, found that from 1986 to 2006 the ratio of pleas to trials nearly doubled.” (Oppel, 2011)…
Martin Seligman who is known as the father of positive psychology speculates that 60% of our happiness is dependent on our genetics and environment while the 40% is up to us. He also discovered that the most joyful and upbeat people are those who had found and explored their special combination of “signature strengths”. For example; humanity, temperance and persistence. Seligman concludes that happiness has three dimensions that can be refined: the Pleasant Life, the Good Life, and the Meaningful life. According to psychologist Peter Kramer, happy people cultivate resilience.…
Happiness is described as a positive feeling that ranges from Joy to contentment. Everybody would like to be happy. It is believed that people who are happy are more successful, productive, have better relationships and better health. We would like to maintain these feelings when we have them. Richard Layard uses the terms ‘outside’ and ‘within’ to describe where happiness comes from. ‘Outside’ factors include influences like relationships, social identities and culture. ‘Within’ looks at influences such as biology, thoughts and feelings. So the ‘outside’ relates to social influences and ‘within’ relates to personal factors inside the individual. This essay aims to find evidence of these multiple influences in order to explain Richard Layard’s statement. First it will address ‘within’, next it will look at the ‘outside’, finishing with a conclusion.…
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…
References: Baker, D., & Stauth, C. (2003). What happy people know: How the new science of happiness can change your life for the better .USA: Rodale Inc.…
Happiness is a universal human objective that has recently gaining more traction in the field of human psychology, known as positive psychology. The documentary Happy, by director Roko Belic, explains that being involved in a community makes people happier. He also says that personal growth, close relationships and community feeling have a major value in people’s lives. Roko Belic states that people being productive and happy live longer. Arthur C. Brooks, in The New York Times article, “A Formula for Happiness,” discusses the community surrounding happiness. He writes that half of where people's happiness comes from is their past, “Half of happiness is genetically determined up to an additional forty percent comes from the things that…
This emerging field of study has challenged the conventional thinking that humans are far more prone to misery than happiness. Research conducted by Ed Diener and Myers (Myers & Diener, 1996) measured the degree of subjective well-being among 1.1 million people in 45 nations, and found that most people are happy and satisfied about their lives. Further research has gone on to reveal that certain traits and temperaments seem to predispose one to experience happiness. The state of subjective well-being is also not achieved through “extrinsic” factors like high income, wealth or possessions, but comes from appreciating the “intrinsic” quality of one’s life, work, friendships and relationships. Subjective well-being is also positively co-related with religious faith, where one derives a sense of meaning and purpose beyond the pursuit of materialistic goals. Myers believes that research on subjective well-being will complement society’s emphasis on material and physical well being; and psychology’s preoccupation with negative emotions. By exploring the roots of happiness, we will hopefully help to reshape prevailing cultural attitudes and envision a world that enhances human well-being. (198 words…
Happiness is clinically “defined as a person’s cognitive and affective evaluations of his or her life.” The cognitive…
Happiness, the intangible emotion that we all desire. Is there proof that this emotion even exists? Eduardo Porter has written an essay titled “What Happiness Is”. In this essay Mr. Porter took the time to study the emotion of happiness that we all experience in life. He makes an attempt to question not only his reasons as to why he is happy, but to have the reader question their own sense of happiness as well. What is it that makes us feel joyful emotions, and how can vastly different experiences cause us to feel the same emotion that we call happiness? While searching for the proof of this feeling Eduardo Porter reflects upon his own personal experiences, professional studies and ultimately decides that his questions may never be answered. Porter states that, “most psychologists and economists who study happiness agree that what they prefer to call “subjective well-being” comprises three parts: satisfaction, meant to capture how people judge their lives measured up against their aspirations; positive feelings like joy; and the absence of negative feelings like anger.” This is an important analysis of how we form the idea of how joyful we actually are. Something in life that one person might be ashamed of could improve the level of cheerfulness for another person. For example, the thought of getting a tattoo might cause one individual to feel guilt while another individual might feel pleasure at the same thought. Because there is no definitive formula that provides a calculated experience of happiness for everyone, it is interesting to question what actions or lack thereof in our lives cause us to be cheerful or to lose some of the happiness that we have already gained. The organization of this essay was well thought out and effective. The author opens with the statement, “Happiness is a slippery concept, a bundle of meaning with no precise, stable definition.” This opening statement provokes the reader to question their own beliefs in…
Happiness is an amazing thing in this world. Since the days of Aristotle, happiness was thought to have at least two aspects which are pleasure and a life well lived. According to psychology, happiness is referred to as simply pleasure and meaning (Let’s put the things). A psychologist named Dr. Martin Selignman had recently added a new component to the definition of happiness: engagement (Let’s put the things). Engagement refers to living a “good life” of work, family and hobbies. But how does a person become happy? Some people would say from relaxing and treating yourself and some may even say by getting or being rich. Most times happiness is derived from helping others but it can also depend on ourselves according to Aristotle.…
The McDonalds case has spawned a good deal of literature, for an in depth study and analysis of the facts of the case look at A Bloom,W. Halton, Mecam, Java Jive, Genealogy of a Juridical Icon, 56 U. Miami L. Review, 113 (2000); A similar situation in J&M Parsons v. McDonalds, 698 N.E.2d 516 (1998)…
The value of the definition of philosophy: the value of specific things are an integral part of the human brain is everything in the world is divided into two major categories of useful and harmful, from the two major types of specific things in the abstract thinking by the absolute abstract things or meta body, is the world The interaction with all things in general, the interrelated nature and capacity of each specific things that have the universal nature and provisions.…