Case Study I:

Money: Utube Money Section

[1]"Money can buy happiness" it just depends on how you spend the monies:
by Michael Norton Harvard University Business School [14-18 minutes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGEQcFo9RE&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

Norton's scenario begins with an experiment where they give Vancouver college students either a
5c.[Canadian] or a 20c. [Canadian]to spend as they please.
They found that the college student's with the 5c. would typically just race over to Starbucks and buy
a fancy 5c. coffee.

The 20c. recipient would look at the proposition as a 'spend it on me'...or 'spend it on others' or
possibly some variation or combination of the two.

Basically, Norton attempts to prove that how you spend your money has a direct relationship to how
much happiness it yields to you as the giver.

Idiomatic expressions not found in Norton's Ted Talk regarding money attitudes:

Money Myth #1: states that "neither a borrower or a lender be"

Money Myth #2: states that it "takes money to make money"
Money Myth #2: states that "it takes money to make money"

The vocabulary of Money:

[3]Prosocial: People spending money on others

[a]Positive Spending: Spending money on others yields more happiness
[4]Antisocial: People Spending only on themselves
[a]Negative Spending yields little or no happiness

Special Case: Lottery winners:

Lottery winners:
Two major longitudinal studies have shown that mega-millions winners of State lotteries in the United
States are usually in worse shape financially, mentally and physically after a few years even though
they may have given large sums of money to others.

Mainly this is largely assumed to be the case because many of their borrowers are thought to be only
trying to take advantage of their friends or relatives who had good fortune in winning the lottery

Quiz/Matching:

1. Prosocial a.People spending on themselves

_____________

2. Antisocial b.Lottery Winners

_____________
3. Negative Spending c.Yields highest happiness

4. Lottery Winners d.Neither borrower or lender be

_____________
5.Money Myth #1 e.Institutions that rent money

6. Money Myth #2 f. Yields most happiness

7. Positive Spending g. Yields least happiness

Case Study II:

Wendy Suzuki·TEDWomen 2017

To date, 6,583,766 individuals have viewed Dr. Suzuki's 2017 Ted Talk
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=TED+TALKS+FITNESS#id=1

Wendy Suzuki is a Professor of Neuroscience:

www.wendysuzuki.com/wendy

Dr. Wendy A. Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural
Science at New York University. She received her undergraduate degree in physiology and human
anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987.

She was studying with Prof. Marion C. Diamond, a leader in the field of brain plasticity.
Dr. Suzuki claims that her basic research on herself has shown her that two benefits accrue to those
who exercise regularly.

What are these astonishing brain-changing benefits of exercise:

What Dr. Suzuki discovered initially focused on herself and as she continued to run these
experiments on herself...she started to think of them as the Wendy Suzuki Self-Programmed Brain
Exercise Experiments.

Dr. Suzuki's Research Objectives:

First in order to replicate what Dr. Suzuki created you might want to consider starting a new exercise
regime or increasingly alter your current exercise program so as to get the most long-lasting effects.

These effects are long-lasting because exercise actually changes the brain's anatomy, physiology,
and function.

Let us now start with a discussion of the two key areas of the brain directly affected by long-term
exercise programs.

The first is the prefrontal cortex right behind your forehead, critical for things like decision-making,
focus, attention and last but not least, your personality.

The second key area is located in the temporal lobe... we have two temporal lobes in our brains, the
right and the left, and deep in the temporal lobe is a key structure critical for your ability to form and
retain new long-term memories for facts and events ...and that structure is called the hippocampus.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/3d-illustration-human-body-brain-anatomy-
1108787576

Dr. Suzuki has always been fascinated with the hippocampus.

As she relates in her Ted Talk it could be that an event that lasts just a moment, say, your first kiss, or
the moment a first child was born, can form memories so vividly that it changes your brain so greatly,
that the memory lasts an entire lifetime.

Dr. Suzuki early on focused initially in wanting to start and record the activity of individual brain cells in
the hippocampus as subjects were forming new memories.
Essentially she was trying to decode how those brief bursts of electrical activity, which is how neurons
communicate with each other and how in just those brief bursts either allowed us to form a new
memory, or did not.

Vocabulary:

[1] Prefrontal cortex[directly behind forehead]

[2] Hippocampus
[3] Memories
[4] Neurons
[5] Temporal Lobes[two...right and left]
[6] Exercise programs

Quiz/Matching:

[1] hippocampus a.decision making

[2] pre-frontal cortex b.right and left

[3] temporal lobes c.bursts of electrical energy

[4] memories d.neurons

[5] connective formations e.changes in anatomy, physiology, and function.

[6 exercise programs f. hippocampus

[7] temporal lobes g. retain new long-term memories for facts and events

Case Study III:

Prepared as Case Study #3:
Here College First-year students are seen adjusting to changes in the move from secondary schools
to the university

[1]Case Study III:

Dr. Dan Gilbert·Harvard University:TED TALK 2004
The Surprising Science of Gaining Genuine Happiness:

After reviewing Dan Gilbert's Ted Talk that was first presented to his audiences in a twenty-one-
minute talk on gaining genuine happiness in 2004 see if your thinking on happiness aligns with the
eminent Harvard Psychiatrist.

Human beings are often very bad at predicting what will create true, Can people find lasting
happiness in their lives and that, of course, goes equally for College Freshman[First Year Students]
as well as the rest of the world.

Not only that, but research suggests that luck — the big break that lands a student at his or her
favorite school after only being given a conditional acceptance is definitely going to be viewed as
genuine happiness but of the sort which one might reasonably term as the 'luck of the draw'.

Now, we don't need to give you too many examples of people synthesizing happiness ...versus
expected happiness to see how very different these two states of happiness can be viewed.

However now let us see how a college Freshman with an all A's transcript and impeccable College
Boards who has applied for admittance to just three universities, gets admitted to all three, even
receiving early acceptance letters at all three schools, will invariably view his or her world of
happiness.

This student felt for sure that he or she was going to absolutely be accepted at all three institutions of
higher learning.
So the happiness accruing to our student in question is clearly not synthesized but was highly
expected.

Now let us look at student B...

Here we see a largely B+ student ...with average board scores applying to the same three schools as
student A.
As it often turns out, he or she did get accepted but only 'conditionally' to one of the three schools and
if someone already accepted chooses not to come to that school where he or she was
accepted...student B. can than enter in as a Freshman at that school.

Time goes by and late in the summer before the Freshman year the student receives a letter from the
school saying that he or she can register as a First Year Student or Freshman. If queried this student
clearly would say his or her happiness is of the 'synthetic' variety and chooses to use 'luck' to explain
his or her good fortune.

These two typologies exist with the synthesized happiness versus the expected happiness students
now living side-by-side.

Usually, major challenges to their flexibility await out First Year Students in the first few weeks after
school opens regarding their housing choices and roommates.

Since in the West most major universities generally speaking assign all first-year students to live in
dormitories for their first year the challenge will be to see who has the school assigned to be my
roommate?

In this modern age of computerized matchmaking, attempting to do the same for roommates we can
hope to eliminate most problems but unfortunately, if the process is flawed we can have two students
who are just not that well-matched and as luck would have it ...assigned to living together.

Vocabulary:
Synthesized happiness
Expected happiness
True lasting happiness
Impeccable
Luck of the draw
Dormitories
Conditionally
Early Acceptance

Matching/Quiz:

[1] Synthetized Happiness a. Luck of the draw

[2] Dormitories b. Expected Happiness
[3] Impeccable c. True Lasting Happiness
[4] Conditionally d. Perfect in every way
[5]_Early Acceptance e. Letters Reinforcing desirability
[6] Housing f. Student living quarters