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Pleasure & Positive Experience

Pleasure & Positive Experience. Adapted from Christopher Peterson. What do you think of when you read these words and expressions?. Living life to the hilt Zest Exuberance Vitality. -doing it to the uttermost, with nothing held back, by analogy, as far as the blade will go.

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Pleasure & Positive Experience

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  1. Pleasure & Positive Experience Adapted from Christopher Peterson

  2. What do you think of when you read these words and expressions? • Living life to the hilt • Zest • Exuberance • Vitality -doing it to the uttermost, with nothing held back, by analogy, as far as the blade will go - added interest, flavour, or excitement -abounding in vigour and high spirits; full of vitality - physical or mental vigour, energy, etc

  3. from: Sheldon & Lyubomirsky

  4. Let’s fill the White Board with subjective positive/pleasure- experiences…

  5. Is there a social ambivalence around sense pleasure and their so-called indulgence? Taste, touch, smell, sight, sound.

  6. Pleasure and Positive Experience: Scope “Raw feel” of the body to higher pleasure of the mind “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Pleasure can be intense, awakened, sharp or quiet and serene.

  7. Pleasure • Regardless of subjective variation, pleasure feels good and if we are not seeking it relentlessly, at least most of us appreciate it greatly when it occurs, trying to maintain it or enhance it.

  8. Pleasure and Positive Experience • Pleasure: research- experiential quality(of experience) quantity (frequency, variety) • Pleasure is multidimensional- sometime can be accompanied by both negative and positive feelings simultaneously • Bitter-sweet: Playing exceptional in a game but losing, sad song, vigorous workout… Can you think of other examples? • Pleasure can result from adding a stimulus or subtracting it.

  9. Adaptation • Adaptation: after repeated exposure to the same emotion-producing stimulus, the tendency to experience less of the emotion.

  10. Predication • Anticipating Pleasure and decision making • Our decisions based on how we think we will feel; these predictions are accurate only to a point • Error: how long the feeling lasts (good or bad) http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

  11. Positive Experiences, Pleasure and Time • Time Orientation: • Reminiscing about the past (Gratitude and forgiveness) • Savoring the present moment (mindfulness) • Anticipating the future (hope and optimism)

  12. Adaptation Flourishing Positivity heritability Flow KEY TERMS Hedonic Treadmill Affectivity Savoring Broaden and build theory Mood

  13. Mood Feeling …Like climate. …Like weather. Mood- general emotional state of an individual Positive Affectivity- extent to which an individual experiences positive moods like joy, interest and alertness.

  14. Negative emotion alerts us to danger, narrowing options… Broaden-and- Build theory positive emotion signals safety, and broadens options and build on them – Barbara Fredrickson

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