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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aerobic exercise | sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; also helps alleviate depression and anxiety. |
| mindfulness meditation | a reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner. |
| feel-good, do-good phenomenon | people’s tendency to be helpful when in a good mood. |
| positive psychology | the scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive. |
| subjective well-being | self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people’s quality of life. |
| adaptation-level phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. |
| relative deprivation | the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. |