question archive 1) What were the results of Tom Gilovich’s 1992 study of the Barcelona Olympics silver-medalists? What did the bronze medalists score? What did the silver medalists score? Of all the people on the podium, which group was “clearly the most miserable”? 2
1) What were the results of Tom Gilovich’s 1992 study of the Barcelona Olympics silver-medalists? What did the bronze medalists score? What did the silver medalists score? Of all the people on the podium, which group was “clearly the most miserable”? 2
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1) What were the results of Tom Gilovich’s 1992 study of the Barcelona Olympics silver-medalists? What did the bronze medalists score? What did the silver medalists score? Of all the people on the podium, which group was “clearly the most miserable”?
2.What explanation does Tom Gilovich provide to help us understand the above findings regarding silver and bronze medalists?
3.What did Professor David Matsumoto’s study of martial artists during the 2004 Athens games on facial expressions reveal about the medalists’ reactions to winning silver?
4.“These findings show that the imagined alternative, that of a gold medal, __________ the actual really awesome reality- the silver medalist experience.”
5.Is the problem just reserved for Olympians?
6.“People don’t react to the stimuli they confront; they react to the _______ that they attach to the stimuli.”
7.How does this statement (#6) explain the difference between the silver and bronze medalists’ reactions to their placement?
8.When and how have you experienced a response similar to that of the silver medalist? (In other words, when have you been disappointed by an experience because it did not quite reach the expectations that you wanted or hoped for?) (Personal Reflection)
9.How do bronze medalists frame their experiences in ways that are relatable to all of us in our own life experiences?
10.When and how have you experienced a response similar to that of the bronze medalist? (In other words, when have you been happy or experienced relief about avoiding an expected unpleasant or negative outcome?) (Personal Reflection)
11.“There’s always a worse reference point if you look carefully enough. The problem is we don’t often look. It’s really a psychology of counting your __________.”
12.Describe what Laurie Santos means by “the power of reference points.” Why doesn’t being absolutely better always feel better?
13.What were the findings of Andrew Clark’s 2003 study of wellbeing in the UK across different kinds of labor markets in boomtowns versus ghost towns and what explanation was provided for the difference in the two types of towns?
14.How does the science of reference points help explain why lottery winners, millionaires, and other wealthy individuals aren’t significantly happier than the rest of us?
15.What were the findings of the economic study of reference points as explained by Tom Gilovich (the one in which people were asked if they would rather make $50,000 while others are making $25,000 or they would make $100,000 while others are making $200,000)? What is “crazy” about these results?
16.Honestly, if given the same options as those noted in the question above, which would you pick and why? (Personal Reflection)
17.According to further research by Sara Solnick and David Hemenway, in what other areas of our life, besides money, does this same principle hold true?
18.How does losing the Dutch Postcode Lottery affect happiness differently than the Powerball Lottery in the United States? In other words, why is it “more of a bummer than losing a regular lottery”? And how is their situation similar to that of the silver medalists discussed earlier?
19.What did Peter Kuhn’s study discover about how one Dutch household winning the prize affects material consumption in the rest of the community?
20.How does our tendency to be “goal striving creatures” lead us to pick reference points that make us feel unhappy or miserable?
21.What is the “most insidious part” of our reference point bias?
22.How are these comparisons a “double-edged sword”?
23.When you pick your reference points in life, in which direction do you tend to look? Do you tend to pick comparisons that make you feel bad about yourself and your accomplishments or good? Please elaborate. (Personal Reflection)
24.Describe the strategy of “negative visualization” and how it was able to help Michelle Kwan reframe her silver medal experience differently than others previously mentioned.
25.How was Michelle Kwan’s injury (her foot fracture) a psychological “gift”?
26.“It was really an awakening that it’s not about the _________, it’s about the ________.”
27.“Most of the things in life that are truly sustaining- in terms of their ability to provide us with happiness—has to do with the ________ of things.
28.“We are happier when…, not when…” (Fill in both sets of “…”)
29.Tim Gilovich states, “Happy people have this talent for …” (Fill in the “…”)
30.In the context of understanding how damaging our reference point bias can be on our long-term well-being, what did the final study mentioned in the podcast find about the longevity of silver medalists when compared to those who won bronze or gold?
