“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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Replying to @literalbanana
time to whip out my "hedonic treadmill isnt real" take
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Replying to @fire__exit
oh I agree, at least I have a complicated take in that direction uh
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Replying to @literalbanana @fire__exit
(evidence is stronger that bad things have real & lasting hedonic effects than good things though)
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Replying to @literalbanana @fire__exit
try this one on: extremely good things are exactly as traumatic in a systemic sense as extremely bad things and we have absolutely no way to contextualize or process that
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wut? need example
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think of a time something ridiculously good happened to you, or ideally have something ridiculously good happen to you because memory is useless check off the list of effects of psychological trauma; intrusive memories, confusion, distraction, withdrawal, mood swings
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto and
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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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto and
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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