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Http://www.academicearth.org/lectures/t ... -happiness
Somehow came accross this lecture while surfing the net, its a lecture on what makes humans happy and what changes can and cant affect us.
Basically theyre trying to discover if therapy works in fixing emotional issues. All humans have a predetermined base level of contentment built in that we can come and go from even though we spike upto happiness or into depression all the time. Apparently their studies show that regardless of what life throws at us (be it sudden disability or a huge lottery win), we re adjust and as we become used to the change, we go back to our own level of contentment, some therapies work to speed up the return to contentment and others have no effect.
However one of the exceptions they found to the rule that we readjust was in how we feel about our own appearance. In the lecture they mention briefly that people who have good plastic surgery never get complacent with their new looks and always spike into happiness.
It'd make sense to presume that the same is true when theres something wrong with our appearance, if we are depressed about a change now, then we always will be!
Not good news for us
Somehow came accross this lecture while surfing the net, its a lecture on what makes humans happy and what changes can and cant affect us.
Basically theyre trying to discover if therapy works in fixing emotional issues. All humans have a predetermined base level of contentment built in that we can come and go from even though we spike upto happiness or into depression all the time. Apparently their studies show that regardless of what life throws at us (be it sudden disability or a huge lottery win), we re adjust and as we become used to the change, we go back to our own level of contentment, some therapies work to speed up the return to contentment and others have no effect.
However one of the exceptions they found to the rule that we readjust was in how we feel about our own appearance. In the lecture they mention briefly that people who have good plastic surgery never get complacent with their new looks and always spike into happiness.
It'd make sense to presume that the same is true when theres something wrong with our appearance, if we are depressed about a change now, then we always will be!
Not good news for us
