It is this foundational belief that drove him to proceed with the spirit phone. His former associate, now bitter rival, Nikola Tesla, was also developing at the same time a similar mysterious device.Įdison’s little-known near-death experience formed his theory that animate life forms don’t die, but rather change the nature of their composition. This led to the last and least-known of all Edison’s inventions, the spirit phone. The intensity of people’s positive emotions should not be ignored, but should be studied in combination with the time-course (frequency and duration) of positive and negative feelings.Thomas Edison closely followed the alternative physics work of Albert Einstein and Max Planck, convincing him that there was an entire reality unseen by the human eye.
Another hypothesis is that it is more difficult to accurately measure the intensity of feelings than their time-course, and this makes the amount of time people feel positive more amenable to study with self-report methods. Intense positive feelings often have costs, including a tendency to more intense negative feelings in negative situations. We hypothesize that there are several reasons that subjective well-being is more strongly associated with the amount of time people feel positive versus negative feelings rather than with the intensity of their positive feelings. People who rarely or never feel euphoria, for instance, can nonetheless report very high levels of well-being. In this chapter we suggest that “happiness,” or high subjective wellbeing, is more strongly associated with the frequency and duration of people’s positive feelings, not with the intensity of those feelings.
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