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Hedonic Adaptation
Emotional and life-satisfaction responses to a change often diminish over time, but people do not return completely or equally to one fixed baseline.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
The Challenge of Staying Happier: Testing the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model
Research-assisted source review
- What it supports
- The observed paths supported several model predictions linking appreciation and varied experiences with maintenance of positive emotion and aspirations with adaptation.
- Where it may not transfer
- The study was observational, student-based and focused on self-reported positive changes. It does not show that a product should create surprise, variable rewards or more usage.
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