John Gottman managed to get an extraordinary understanding of relationshjip by filming couples nad analyzing the moment to moment dynamics.
He managed to predict in advance who will stay together and whether it will be a happy or an unhappy relationship.
Why not do the same for happiness? It is very intuitive that one thoughts and its resulting emotions and reactions leads to another and so on. There is clearly a hell lot of non linear dynamcis going on.
PS. Barbara Frederickson (2005) has a model positing that one needs aobut 3 times as much positive affect to get happy. But she did a theoretical model and has not got iniot tracking moment by moment data
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Blood glucose consumption with self regulatory tasks
Galliot at all show that exerting self regulation reduces blood sugar levels.
There are two possible theoreis as tohow this happens.
Galliot offers it is the glucose consumption in the brain.
I suggest that it is rather some physiological bodily reaciton that consumes much energy or maybe changes hormonal balance and reducing blood sugar in other routes. This is supported by the intuition that the brain is not going to take so much fuel to reduce significantly blood sugar, even if one is self regulating.
The simplest way is to do brain scans while Ss are self regulating and see whether sugar consumptin is higher.
This can be done with cheap methods of brain scanning, because we do not need a calibrated picture of brain activity. We merely need blood flow and sugar consumption which is a relatively crude question.
A more elaborated research would track moment by moment all parameters, i.e. blood sugar, bodily reacitons of various kinds. and Try to see in reality the dynamic of the ego depletion process. John Gottman did a momemnt ot moment analysis of couple interacitons and got unbelievaby fascinaitng results (predicting marriage stability 15 years in advance with 90% accuracy based on 15 minutes couple interaction).
If you wise to do that and want more detail ideas or help contact me, and I will happily halep and discuss the idea. yzilber AT g-m-a-i-l
There are two possible theoreis as tohow this happens.
Galliot offers it is the glucose consumption in the brain.
I suggest that it is rather some physiological bodily reaciton that consumes much energy or maybe changes hormonal balance and reducing blood sugar in other routes. This is supported by the intuition that the brain is not going to take so much fuel to reduce significantly blood sugar, even if one is self regulating.
The simplest way is to do brain scans while Ss are self regulating and see whether sugar consumptin is higher.
This can be done with cheap methods of brain scanning, because we do not need a calibrated picture of brain activity. We merely need blood flow and sugar consumption which is a relatively crude question.
A more elaborated research would track moment by moment all parameters, i.e. blood sugar, bodily reacitons of various kinds. and Try to see in reality the dynamic of the ego depletion process. John Gottman did a momemnt ot moment analysis of couple interacitons and got unbelievaby fascinaitng results (predicting marriage stability 15 years in advance with 90% accuracy based on 15 minutes couple interaction).
If you wise to do that and want more detail ideas or help contact me, and I will happily halep and discuss the idea. yzilber AT g-m-a-i-l
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