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Myers Module 30
Expressing and Experiencing Emotion
Question | Answer |
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Catharsis | emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that releasing aggrieve energy relieves aggressive urges. |
Feel-good, do-good phenomenon | peoples tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. |
Subjective well-being | self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people’s quality of life. |
Adaption-level phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. |
Relative Deprivation | the perception that one is owrse off relative to those with whome one compares oneself |