1. EQ: What are the causes of happiness?

2. Bell Ringer Explain the happiest moment in your life Do you think you are a “happy person”? What makes you happy? How do you know when you are happy?

3. Take and score happiness test In your notes… Write your score Are you surprised by your score? Why/why not?

4. Happiness theories Feel-good, do-good phenomenon: When we feel happy we are more willing to help others

5. Relative Deprivation The sense that we are worse off than others with whom we compare ourselves to

6. Adaptation level principle Tendency to judge various stimuli (events) relative to those previously experienced

7. Which theory is t? You live on a small amount of money, $1,000 per month. You may think "if I had more money I would always be able to pay all my bills and still buy other things." Then you get a big raise and you start making $3,000 per month. At first this would be a very exciting new experience. After a while, however, when all the new income has been allotted to pay some bill, you might again start to think, "if I had more money I could buy more clothes.”

8. Which theory is it? You just found out that you were accepted to the college of your dreams. Your little sister (who normally annoys you) asks you for a ride to her friends house and you do so happily.

9. Which theory is it? “Our poverty became a reality. Not because of our having less, but by our neighbors having more.” Will Campbell, Brother to a dragonfly, 1977

10. Analyze Graphs 30.8 and 30.9 Explain what each graph is showing What conclusion can you make about each graph Write a sentence which connects the two graphs Do you think this is true?

11. Pulse of a nation video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedde d&v=ujcrJZRSGkg#! Where and when are people happiest in the US???

12. Twitter reading Main idea: How does time of day influence mood? Supporting details: Give two examples of main idea According to the study, what is mood based on? (besides time of day)

13. Who's happiest? This map shows the average level of positive feelings in each country over a year; darker red means more positive (black means no data was available).

14. Who's saddest? This map shows the average level of negative feelings in each country over a year; darker blue means more negative (black means no data was available).