Applied Psychology In Everyday Life By Michael B. Johnson

Abstract In the book Applied Psychology in Everyday Life published on 2011 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, included is the 20 page section titled Psychology and Health: Aspects of the Mind That Affect Everyday Health, by the author Michael B. Johnson, who discusses the importance of one’s own perspective and how we ourselves view life, and how all of this contributes to how one feels towards oneself and towards others. The author says that in order for an individual to fully enjoy life, they must learn how to manage their personal experiences since a being is greatly impacted by these involvements to the point in which it can affect their physical health. Therefore one must become self-aware of these experiences, and control them so they do not lead to depression, stress, or attentional hyperactivity (which results from multitasking too many things at once while your mind races to keep up). There are four factors discussed by the author that he believes can be controlled by us in order to maintain a …show more content…
In the beginning the author assumed that there are four factors that we should follow in order to maintain a peaceful state of mind, and throughout the article he provides evidence for his assumptions and explains how this is indeed, valid reasoning. An example of this would be when Kahneman and Deaton (2010) provide data from 450,000 Americans between 2008 and 2009, showing that individuals that have a higher income than 75,000 per year are not actually happier. He also performed experiments with his patients, for example, while he was with his client that told him he was frustrated and could not remember his important topic three to four days after his psychiatric therapy, he performed these experiments just like he would when he was regularly in session with a patient, so that he could get a truthful