This paper will summarize two papers related to the article “Awe Expands people’s Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-Being” by Melanie Rudd, Kathleen D.Vohs, and Jennifer Aaker. The paper will also compare and contrast the three peer-reviewed article’s strengths and weakness and whether the findings are complementary or contradictory. The validity of the studies and the implication and limitations of the results will also be discussed. The article “Awe Expands people’s Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-Being” by Melanie Rudd, Kathleen D.Vohs, and Jennifer Aaker examined how awe, which is a feeling, influence people's perception of time, decision making, and wellness. Rudd, Vohs, and
is how time can be 'mean' when one needs a few moments to reflect on
amounts of time dedicacted to worry, either about the past or the future. And with the Adverse
Celebrated by a 25th Anniversary Edition publication in 2014, Mindfulness by Ellen J. Langer explores the ideas of mindlessness and mindfulness and their implications on health and wellbeing. Langer is a very accomplished psychologist having received her BA from New York University and her PhD from Yale. She has been a Professor of Psychology at Harvard since 1977. A few of her achievements include the NYU Alumni Achievement Award, the Arthur Staats Award for Unifying Psychology, and the World Congress Award. Langer has authored 11 books and over 200 research articles on topics such as perceived control, successful aging, and decision-making. However, all of her research has a focus on mindfulness.
In a world where speed and time are of the essence, it is almost an obscene idea to “slow down”, or to take things from a pace of extreme rushing to that of a slower, more relaxed one. Looking back throughout history, it is clear that time is beginning to speed up, and tasks that used to once be enjoyable have started to speed up in order to increase time for other more ‘important’ things, such as working for example. Carl Honoré’s book, titled In Praise of Slow takes the reader through many different topics of discussion, and how each could be and is affected by the “slow movement”. This book discusses the way in which slowing down is very beneficial to many different institutions within society and the ways in which this can be done. By examining
The question remains; do we continue to allow the “want self” to take over when dealing with day to day issues or do we let the should self make the decision? Recent research was conducted to decipher the choices we make and how our emotions play an integral role in helping us do that. Positive and negative moods were studied. When a person is in a pleasant mood it increases the reliance on heuristic and results are more biased judgements. (Bodenhausen, Kramer, & Suesser, 1994). Bad moods may spark deliberate
Humans gravitate towards safe, loving, and happy experiences. But sometimes it’s difficult to be positive, especially when experiences feel overwhelming. In recent years, there has been a lot of research conducted on regulating emotions. With these strategies, we can learn how to control our feelings. There are two types of strategies: savoring and dampening. Savoring is the idea of noticing and relishing experiences, hardwiring your brain to focus on positivity. Dampening, on the other hang, is the act of suppressing or down-regulating positive emotions, out of fear, shyness, or modesty. There are many ways to promote positive emotions, but the focus of this paper will be on the differing implementation strategies. While there’s consensus amongst scholarship that savoring and dampening are effective ways in influencing life satisfaction, the scholars differ in their approaches leading to their conclusions.
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...lead to stress-another thing that is so common. If one chose to live simpler lifestyles and slow down their lives a bit and relax rather than overwhelming themselves with so much, maybe they would be able to enjoy their lives more. Managing time will lead to extra time to go out and create memories, and focus on living and being happy. When one departs from this world, they will think of their past and recall memories and become content with they fact that they did not let their time slip away being overwhelmed and completely trapped in the world while working their lives away to simply satisfy their materialistic needs. One will look back and remember that they lived a life of meaning, a true everlasting joy to know that they lived a great life.
The scientific definition of time is a measurement of progress that is relative to an individual’s perception of events (HowStuffWorks.com, 2010). A psychological study proves that these viewpoints are
Time is another forgotten, but important factor in my walk that I realized through experiments in mindfulness. I started waking up earlier to begin my observations on time and mindfulness. I planned to give myself more time in the morning and evaluate my senses. I believed creating extra time in the morning could help improve my day by creating extra time. In fact, with more available time came a dramatic improvement in my day. I am now waking up earlier and though the alarm clock rings over and over, I still curse the fact its already time to get
The problem of time management can be said to be universal not only affecting students but also other people in careers. This problem is seen to transition from a person’s life from different cadres of his or her engagement specifically from home, school and at work. It is also a problem that is internal and not external.
Time management today is not as it was in the past. It has grown with time. Stephen R. Covey places time management into four generations. He feels it has evolved the same way society has. Each generation grows on the one before it. For example, the agriculture revolution was followed by the industrial revolution, which was then followed by the informational revolution. The first wave or generation is basically notes and checklist. Which really only identifies the demands placed on our time and energy. Calendars and appointment books characterize the second generation. This reflects an attempt to look ahead. The third generation is current time management field. It?s the last two generations with the ideas of prioritization, clarifying values, and comparing the worth of activities. It also includes the idea of making a specific plan to accomplish goals and activities that we determined to be of value. Because this all may be too restricting for people they turn to the previous generations to preserve relationships, and spontaneity. And the last generation, which is just beginning to emerge, is a different type of time management. The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. The generation focuses on relationships and results. Time management is forever changing. We each see it in our own way. It has been used since the start of time and will only improve. Just beca...
In the workplace, time management is an important factor in everyone’s day-to-day work. If a person’s time is well managed, it is possible to achieve a greater amount in a shorter space of time. How effectively people manage their time has a major influence on aspects of their working lives and their personal lives. Effective time management can have a hugely positive effect on a person, it can lead to a focused and disciplined mentality, giving a higher level of productivity, greater efficiency and an all round positive attitude in life. This benefits the individual, their team, the company they work for and also their friends and family. An example of this is an employee who prioritises their jobs at the start of the day; this gives them a structured day and ensures they have time to complete all of the important jobs. However, if time is poorly managed it can lead to inefficiencies, work overload and added pressure, this could eventually lead on to other issues such as stress.
This is an interesting topic since it can determine how well a person can control their emotions, how can their surroundings be affected, especially people, by the way the person feels. There are two ways to self-assets our feelings, w...
Hu, et al. (2015) demonstrated that participants under a high time constraint showed high risk-seeking behavior and this behavior was exacerbated in the group that was primed with positive emotion. It has also been demonstrated that decision strategies remained constant across the time-pressure conditions, a process which took too many risks, further supporting the effect of time pressure of risky decision-making (Kerstholt, 1994). The area of risky decision-making is is affected heavily by time-pressure and further research exploring the priorities decision-makers have in a task under a time-constraint could yield interesting