tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post8979385730103571064..comments2023-10-14T09:40:06.690-05:00Comments on Jean Kazez: The Happiness Curve...Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-6949460881858449212010-06-01T16:29:38.518-05:002010-06-01T16:29:38.518-05:00I forgot to click *send e-mail* on comment form. S...I forgot to click *send e-mail* on comment form. So I'll make another comment, that one of the pleasant aspects of growing old is forgetting.rtkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11565006451158819782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-10646158900960735642010-06-01T15:58:39.581-05:002010-06-01T15:58:39.581-05:00So much is put on hold while you have those adorab...So much is put on hold while you have those adorable, smart, sweet, perfect children. Then - tah dah - did Jean say age 50 is reversal time? What a coincidence. Bye bye you little pains in the neck, hello adult life. But I think it's a stretch to say the happiness grows into the 80s. Ask anyone that age "how's that golden years stuff treating you" and you'll hear a mature rtkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11565006451158819782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-44435029383330829342010-06-01T12:03:40.411-05:002010-06-01T12:03:40.411-05:00wow, that sounds exactly the opposite of my life ....wow, that sounds exactly the opposite of my life ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-75417740752606293422010-06-01T10:58:41.071-05:002010-06-01T10:58:41.071-05:00That corresponds to my life experience. At 18, ...That corresponds to my life experience. At 18, I was full of great expectations, illusions about my self, about the world and about human nature. At 18, I left for the university, free from parental influence and from what I considered to be parental repression. By 50, all my expectations and illusions were shattered. I underwent therapy, and I accepted that the world wasn't s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-75320154686801404872010-06-01T10:58:21.177-05:002010-06-01T10:58:21.177-05:00The reason you get these sorts of results (and cur...The reason you get these sorts of results (and curves) is that children, work, mid-life crises, etc., have a damaging impact on our "subjective well-being"--which is often measured through self-reports and "experience sampling" of a person's good (or bad) feelings over a typical day or week.<br /><br />Dan Gilbert (in <i>Stumbling on Happiness</i>), for example, discusses Matthew Pianaltohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380038537888895216noreply@blogger.com