Beyond the Hedonic Treadmill: Revising the Adaptation Theory of Well-Being
This article is on the Hedonic Treadmill theory and what is considered to be wrong with it. According to the Hedonic Treadmill theory, events in people's lives can change their happiness levels for short times, but in the long run people return to a neutral point of happiness. The purpose of this study is to review the Hedonic Treadmill theory, which the psychologist who worked on this paper viewed as flawed, and correct it.
The psychologists who wrote this article hypothesized that there were five main flaws with the hedonic treadmill theory that needed to be revised before the theory could be excepted. These flaws where as follows: first, individuals set points are not hedonically neutral, in other words, people could be more set towards the happy or sad side; second, people have different set points that they go to based on their temperaments; third, one person may have multiple happiness set points;......
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