“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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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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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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the primary effect of, e.g., falling in love (mutual love, not obsession) is not that it is very distracting. it's that you have introduced a new relationship to your life.
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@literalbanana 's claim that bad experiences have stronger hedonic valence than good experiences. My gut agrees with this but I have my own personality to deal with so I don't trust my gut. -
yeah, that's definitely truthy, i feel like there's a missing lemma in it though
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