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Hedonic Happiness Requires Repetition & More Stimulating Trigger
- Again, all this isn't to say that hedonic happiness is worthless.
- For a quick, mood-boosting pick-me-up, partying with friends or playing hours of mindless video games is fantastic.
- On the other hand, basing one's wellbeing purely around hedonic happiness requires repeated, and often more stimulating, triggers.
- This is one aspect of what researchers term the "hedonic treadmill," the observed tendency of humans to return to a fairly stable level of happiness despite experiencing positive or negative events.
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Different Parts Of The Brain Are Affected
- Interestingly, cues of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness seem to stimulate different parts of the brain.
- In a 2019 study, researchers found that subjects in an fMRI brain scanner cued with hedonic events "showed enhanced activity in frontal medial/middle regions and anterior ci...
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2 Concepts Of Happiness
There are two popular conceptions of happiness in psychology, hedonic and eudaimonic.
- You experience hedonic happiness through pleasure and enjoyment, like when scarfing down your favorite dessert, watching your beloved sports team win a big g...
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Eudaimonic Pursuits Give Sustained Feeling Of Well-Being
- Both eudaimonic and hedonic happiness contribute to overall life satisfaction, but eudaimonic seems to provide a far more sustained effect.
- That's because hedonic forms of happiness tend to provide only fleeting...
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Having A Meaningful Pursuit Is Good For The Immune System
- Another fascinating physiological difference between eudaimonic and hedonic happiness may arise in the immune system.
- In a 2013 study published to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, subjects who characterized their lives as having “a sense of d...
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Eudaimonic Pursuits Give Sustained Feeling Of Well-Being
Both eudaimonic and hedonic happiness contribute to overall life satisfaction, but eudaimonic seems to provide a far more sustained effect.
That's because hedonic forms of happiness tend to provide only fleeting bursts...
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Entrepreneur Are Busy But Happy :)
There's a common perception that entrepreneurs and small business owners are overworked and stressed out. Both of those things can be true on occasion.
At the same time,
- 94% of small business owners say they are happy with their lives, and
- 81% ...
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Hedonic Adaptation
... also referred to as hedonic treadmill, is defined as "the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes" - Positive Psychology Program.
After a while, people become used to change...
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