![]() ![]() ![]() The original Treadmill Theory has been discredited-or at least fallen out of favor. Instead let's focus on the fallacy in the OP's core argument: I'd rather we not get bogged down in downstream minutia. (Who knows if that's even causative, instability & war could cause both GDP & happiness to drop.)Įven the study you are linking suggests revisions, and is far from 'disproving' the hedonic treadmill theory. But that doesn't really detract from the OP's reasoning. He does tell us at the end of the article that GDP correlates with the happiness levels of countries. >"This was the first of many such findings: income, marital status and education all influence experienced happiness less than satisfaction, and we could show that the difference is not a statistical artifact. what that Edge article you are linking shows is that 'experienced happiness' which he thought would be a better measurement of happiness than life satisfaction is even more immune to your life circumstances: He claims that he not only failed, but the data were opposite to his hypothesis.' >'Kahneman tried to explain the hedonic treadmill via with his own aspiration treadmill. Kahneman's paper where that OP misquotes Kahneman from: He claims that he not only failed, but the data were opposite to his hypothesis. Kahneman tried to explain the hedonic treadmill via with his own aspiration treadmill. "Beyond the Hedonic Treadmill: Revising the Adaptation Theory of Well-Being" He's talking about what he called the "Focusing Illusion"- a fancy way of saying "the grass is always greener on the other side." ![]() Kahneman isn't talking at all about the treadmill. The author is also misquoting, or misunderstanding, Kahneman. The latter recognizes that while we become accustomed to new things, we still improve in happiness. The former denotes the subject returns to the original state. Moreover, the author seems to be conflating the concept of the treadmill, with adaptation. The Hedonic Treadmill has been disproven. ![]()
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