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# Cognition & Happiness Conclusion
### Individuals beliefs or “theories” about happiness → influence happiness
ex. luck is more important than effort
Cognitive strategies & decisions matter
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Is happiness really a “thought”? </summary>

- “thinking styles,” there are some individual differences in “feeling styles”- Frequency of PA/NA- Duration of PA/NA- Intensity, Variability of PA/NA- *Savoring of PA/NA- *Expression of PA/NA
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- vast majority of current self-help books suggest you to change your beliefs
→ H**appiness is experience so do not overestimate Cognitive strategies**

# Zero-sum Theory
believe Happiness exist in a "fixed” amount (BIFAH)
1. Between people → make jealous → make unhappy
2. Within life → cannot enjoy now totally
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These kind of people like</summary>

- more competitive
- frequent social comparison
- fatalistic belief
- low extraversion
- high neuroticism
- low other's rating about likable, happy
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**Show less life satisfaction, positive affect, and (before controlling Big 5) high negative affect**

# Sense of Control
People are fundamentally motivated to seek control - able to tolerate more distress if they “believe”they have control over the environment
**Good for happiness**

# Looking at the best versus worst domain
overall happiness based on
- personal “best “domain (happy people)
- personal “worst “domain (unhappy people)
> **No life has everything; see what you have, not what you are missing**

 
# Happiness is a warm, abstract thought
**Life satisfaction correlated to abstractness of LS standards (Contrast to BIFAH)**
concrete condition(like learned experience) - abstract condition (like inherent experience)
-> “intrinsic goals” (meaning) are more satisfying than “extrinsic goals”

> Counterfactual thinking - low condition can be more happy like bronze Olympic bronze medal give more happiness


# Savoring
### From here - we treat individual difference
form of emotion regulation used to prolong and enhance positive experiences - ENJOY THIS MOMENT
> It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got
> Contrast to Korean stars saying “계속 지켜봐 주세요”


### Price of abundance
Feel abundant make less time to savor
**But “affluence” impacts happiness in complex ways - convenience, less savoring, boredom**

# Expression
> "To find out other's feeling - fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind"

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facial feedback hypothesis - face expression(body) is not only result of mind, cause of happiness(mind)</summary>


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**unrelated factor can effect to our choose**

### Capitalizing on Positive Events 
people’s typical responses after positive/negative life events
- Social contact* - let others know
- Marking* - express
→ make savoring -high BIFAH → capitalize less

### cultural norms on emotion expression
> (PA-NA) size
> ** More relational concern→ less capitalization → lower SWB**
> compared to US, Koreans:

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