Sometimes I suspect happiness is a social emotion. Contrast with asocial contentment. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/opinion/sunday/happiness-is-other-people.html … HT: @ilikevests
Yes, great way to be wrong :). Well since Sarah didn’t bite, I’ll give it a stab. First reaction is skepticism that there’s free lunch here.
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I suspect people wouldn’t *really* be happier if they talked to strangers more—else why don’t we all reinforcement-learn to do it?
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Follow-up suspicion: The researchers somehow subsidized the talk-to-strangers experience for the experimental group.
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Participant: “Talking to strangers is meh, but this scientist wants me to do it. OK, I’ll play along, and it’ll make for a good story.”
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Final reaction (which is why I tagged Sarah) is radical uncertainty about what “happiness” is and how it’s measured.
End of conversation
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