Example Consider a participant that is 80 years old and has experienced a Victrola to listen to 78’s, record player for their 45’s and LP’s, am radio, transistor radio with am/fm, HiFi stereos, 8 tracks, cassettes, Walkman’s, CD players, CD/Walkman’s, and satellite radio all to play music. Now imagine handing this same participant a smartphone and asking how they feel about getting their music on their smartphone via an app, what do you think their positivity reaction would be? I imagine that this would be frustrating to this participant and this would fall under a negative reaction. While this participants 21-year-old counterpart, that only has memories of CD’s, MP3’s and most likely utilizes their smartphone for far more than music
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Pawelski, evaluates the suitability of Nussbaum’s substantive account of capabilities (Jayawickreme, & Pawelski, 2016). Empirical and conceptualized work has shown the value of positivity, widely sought after quality, that proves to influence general outcomes, economics and overall wellbeing (Jayawickreme, & Pawelski, 2016). While Nussbaum sees positive emotions as incidental to the experience of well-being, Jayawickreme and Pawelski believe that experience and mental state is as influential (Jayawickreme, & Pawelski, 2016). In the application of a study, attempting to measure the age positivity effect on products entitled Age Differences in Choice, Satisfaction: A Positivity Effect in Decision Making, did show that older individuals looked at, the more positive aspects of the product for sale, further supporting the “age influenced positivity effect” is proven in diversified studies (Kim, Healey, Goldstein, Hasher, & Wiprzycka, 2008). It is widely respected in aging psychology that older adults are more connected to positive stimuli, documenting attention to memory tasks, reading emotions through facial expressions and images in addition to health and advertising (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005; Mather & Carstensen, 2003). The younger adults focus on the negative aspects and stimuli in all of the aforementioned categories, broadening the data collected on the topic of age related positivity effect (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005; Mather & Carstensen,
Pawelski, evaluates the suitability of Nussbaum’s substantive account of capabilities (Jayawickreme, & Pawelski, 2016). Empirical and conceptualized work has shown the value of positivity, widely sought after quality, that proves to influence general outcomes, economics and overall wellbeing (Jayawickreme, & Pawelski, 2016). While Nussbaum sees positive emotions as incidental to the experience of well-being, Jayawickreme and Pawelski believe that experience and mental state is as influential (Jayawickreme, & Pawelski, 2016). In the application of a study, attempting to measure the age positivity effect on products entitled Age Differences in Choice, Satisfaction: A Positivity Effect in Decision Making, did show that older individuals looked at, the more positive aspects of the product for sale, further supporting the “age influenced positivity effect” is proven in diversified studies (Kim, Healey, Goldstein, Hasher, & Wiprzycka, 2008). It is widely respected in aging psychology that older adults are more connected to positive stimuli, documenting attention to memory tasks, reading emotions through facial expressions and images in addition to health and advertising (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005; Mather & Carstensen, 2003). The younger adults focus on the negative aspects and stimuli in all of the aforementioned categories, broadening the data collected on the topic of age related positivity effect (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005; Mather & Carstensen,