1. Stephen Sobolewski James Brownstein Daniel Kane
Happiness!
Stephen Sobolewski
James Brownstein
Daniel Kane

2. People who are happy… See the world as safer
Make decisions more easily
Rate job applicants more favorably
Are more cooperative
Live healthier and more energized, satisfied lives
Are more willing to help others

3. Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon
Feel-good, Do-good phenomenon: People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
“Random Acts of Kindness”
Ex: Finding money causes people to give money because they are already happy.
Happiness does good

4. Subjective Well-being
Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life.
Your current evaluation of your own happiness
Refers to emotions, moods and feelings. Affect is considered positive when the emotions, moods and feelings experienced are pleasant ( joy, affection etc.) Affect is deemed negative, though, when the emotions, moods and feelings experienced are unpleasant (e.g. guilt, anger, shame etc.)

5. Moods Across The Day
Psychologists David Watson and Daniel Kahneman discovered that positive emotion rises over the early to middle part of most days.
Stressful events trigger bad moods, but by the next day, we don’t feel sad anymore
People tend to rebound from bad days to a better-than-usual good mood

6. Wealth And Well-Being
Most people believe they would be happier with more money
Within most affluent countries, people with lots of money are somewhat happier than people who struggle to afford life’s basic needs
People in rich countries are also somewhat happier than those in poor countries
However, wealth is like health, Its absence can breed misery, yet having it is no guarantee of happiness.
Both rich and poor people have their share of problems
Money does NOT buy happiness
“American say that money doesn’t bring happiness. But it helps you to live with misery in comfort”
Money brings only a surge of happiness

7. Happiness and Prior Experience
Adaptation-level Phenomenon- Where we judge various stimuli that relates to stimuli that we have previously experienced
Ex: If our current condition (income, academic average, or social prestige) increases we feel an initial surge of pleasure. Than we adapt to this new level of achievement, consider it as normal, and require something better to make us feel happy again.

8. Happiness and Other’s Attainments
Happiness is relative not only to our past experience but also to our comparisons with others.
Relative Deprivation- The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
Ex: When a famous athlete gets a good new contract, it makes him happy, but it diminishes other star players’ satisfaction who have worse contracts.

9. The Top 10 Things That Make People Happy (in Random Order)
Meaningful Work
Good Health
Religion
Positive Thinking
Personal Freedom
Watching TV
Family And Relationships
Giving to Others
Gratitude
Forgiveness

10. Top 10 Things That Make People Happy
Family and Relationships
Meaningful Work
Positive Thinking
Gratitude
Forgiveness
Giving to Others
Religion
Personal Freedom
Good Health
Watching TV