“As income rises, people’s time use does not appear to shift toward activities that are associated with improved affect.” We are so dumb
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ok, I see what you mean. trauma is the wrong word though. need a more neutral term for something with heavy psychological impact.
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...OR IS IT
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i'm extremely serious despite being me, the specific claim i'm making is that if we say "psychological trauma" because extremely -hedonic events tear through your psyche like a bullet through muscle, well, extremely +hedonic ones do the exact same thing
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framing psychically potent experiences as +/- trauma is obfuscatory imo. it focuses attention on the disturbance or disruption (side effects) and not the experience itself (primary effects).
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my correlary claim is that it's lumping these things as disjoint categories that's obfuscatory, erasing what they have in common and leaving people with no cognitive handles to deal with what's going on with them
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just try talking about how fucked up you are because something really good happened to you
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um, no? Admittedly, most things that happen to me are below-moderately good at their best
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if you show the same level of trauma response to below-moderately good things and below-moderately bad things the hypothesis is not contraindicated :)
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TBH I don't think I have baseline-typical levels of trauma response. Point being, of the few really good things that I can recall happening, none caused any of the aforementioned symptoms.
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okay, you are a contrary data point!
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