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EQ: What are the causes of happiness?

EQ: What are the causes of happiness?. Bell Ringer. Explain the happiest moment in your life Do you think you are a “happy person”? What makes you happy? How do you know when you are happy?. Take and score happiness test. In your notes… Write your score

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EQ: What are the causes of happiness?

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  1. EQ: What are the causes of happiness?

  2. Bell Ringer • Explain the happiest moment in your life • Do you think you are a “happy person”? • What makes you happy? • How do you know when you are happy?

  3. Take and score happiness test • In your notes… • Write your score • Are you surprised by your score? Why/why not?

  4. Happiness theories • Feel-good, do-good phenomenon: When we feel happy we are more willing to help others

  5. Relative Deprivation • The sense that we are worse off than others with whom we compare ourselves to

  6. Adaptation level principle • Tendency to judge various stimuli (events) relative to those previously experienced

  7. Which theory is t? • You live on a small amount of money, $1,000 per month. You may think "if I had more money I would always be able to pay all my bills and still buy other things." Then you get a big raise and you start making $3,000 per month. At first this would be a very exciting new experience. After a while, however, when all the new income has been allotted to pay some bill, you might again start to think, "if I had more money I could buy more clothes.”

  8. Which theory is it? • You just found out that you were accepted to the college of your dreams. Your little sister (who normally annoys you) asks you for a ride to her friends house and you do so happily.

  9. Which theory is it? • “Our poverty became a reality. Not because of our having less, but by our neighbors having more.” Will Campbell, Brother to a dragonfly, 1977

  10. Analyze Graphs 30.8 and 30.9 • Explain what each graph is showing • What conclusion can you make about each graph • Write a sentence which connects the two graphs • Do you think this is true?

  11. Pulse of a nation videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ujcrJZRSGkg#! • Where and when are people happiest in the US???

  12. Twitter reading • Main idea: How does time of day influence mood? • Supporting details: Give two examples of main idea • According to the study, what is mood based on? (besides time of day)

  13. Who's happiest? This map shows the average level of positive feelings in each country over a year; darker red means more positive (black means no data was available).

  14. Who's saddest? This map shows the average level of negative feelings in each country over a year; darker blue means more negative (black means no data was available).

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