Happiness, Gratitude, and Love

Glenn Geher, N. Wedberg
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This chapter focuses on three of the core topics that are studied by positive psychologists: happiness, gratitude, and love. Each of these concepts has been the target of extensive research conducted by evolutionary psychologists. As such, we can now understand the ultimate factors that underlie these topics quite well. Happiness can be understood as an emotion that evolved largely to motivate people to move toward stimuli that facilitate survival or reproductive success. Gratitude evolved in connection with our strong tendencies toward reciprocal altruism, helping people keep positively connected to others in small social groups. And love evolved largely because human infants are quite helpless and thus benefit strongly from biparental care. The evolutionary analyses in this chapter are detailed and help shed light on the inner workings of each of these concepts.
幸福,感恩和爱
本章主要关注积极心理学家研究的三个核心主题:幸福、感恩和爱。这些概念中的每一个都是进化心理学家进行广泛研究的目标。因此,我们现在可以很好地理解这些主题背后的最终因素。幸福可以被理解为一种情感,它在很大程度上是为了激励人们朝着有利于生存或繁殖成功的刺激方向发展。感恩的进化与我们强烈的互惠利他主义倾向有关,帮助人们在小的社会群体中与他人保持积极的联系。爱的进化很大程度上是因为人类婴儿非常无助,因此从双亲的照顾中受益匪浅。本章中的演化分析是详细的,有助于阐明这些概念的内部工作原理。
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