Chapter 3 discusses the topic of subjective well-being which brings the question of "what does it mean to be happy?" ... There are empirical results that actually affirm the validity of these two assumptions (Diener, 1984), which is a little a questionable to me. ... There has been scientific evidence that one's average level of happiness and life satisfaction are both relatively stable (Costa, McCrae, 1984, 1986, 1988; Diener, 1994; McCrae, 2011). ... The intensity and frequency of positive emotions are the first thing that interest me in this chapter. ...

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For some period of time, Winston has experienced how it was to be tortured. Therefore, when he has been moved to a more comfortable room where he has more space to think and freshen his mind, as the torture eases. The passage shows that Winston is "writing down the thoughts that came into his head" and the first slogan is "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY" almost without pausing this gives an expression that he rushes his mind to think in that essence. So with a continuous way of thinking he restricted his mind to think forward and not looking back and changing his mind to his old belie...

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"What have cognitive psychologists learnt about the nature of attention, from dichotic listening experiments?" Attention usually refers to a cognitive process during which the human brain selects the information that is significant enough to attend to and ignores the rest. Attention was neatly de...

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