The Importance of Positive Psychology in Understanding Your Values

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To know whether your values are appropriate or not You would need to know a good amount about yourself But also a good amount like that's why I like this example. How does these abusive abusive relationships end up working? Yeah? Like do they get resolved? Is there you know the empirical question right like then you could do this with a lot of things right? Well, I think I think there are a lot of empirical questions And I also think so this is one of the places where I I think positive psychology is important because most people value their own and Their own happiness meant by which I mean Feeling psychological, you know happy feelingspositive affect kind of happiness pleasure.

Special guest Valerie Tiberius joins us to talk about values, well-being, and friendship. What role should reflection play in the good life? What about emotion? How can we make our values more consistent and sustainable? Do we know our friends better than we know ourselves? Plus, are philosophers experts? Experts of what? What are the boundaries of our discipline? And what motivates a gay Mormon to stay in the Church? In the first segment, David and Tamler list a few things they're grateful for on Thanksgiving, including you, the listeners (awwwwww...)

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National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation [wikipedia.org]
Valerie Tiberius personal website [sites.google.com]
Tiberius, V. (2012) Cell Phones, iPods, and Subjective Well-Being. In Brey, P., A. Briggle & E. Spence (Eds.). The good life in a technological age. Routledge. [verybadwizards.com]
Desire theories of well-being ( from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Well-Being) [plato.stanford.edu]

Special Guest: Valerie Tiberius.

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