A star not yet lit · Psychology
Hedonic Adaptation
We return to a baseline of mood whatever happens.
We return to a baseline of mood whatever happens. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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On the sky
Nearest on the sky
- Allostasis
- The Availability Heuristic
- Fortune and the Loan
- Intrinsic Motivation
- Learned Helplessness
- Memento Mori
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