Lab reflection questions

Assignment Instructions: Listen to the podcast from The Happiness Lab entitled “A Silver Lining” (Season 1, Episode 3) and answer the following questions.

Happiness Lab- Season 1, Episode 3: “A Silver Lining”: https://www.happinesslab.fm/season-1-episodes/a-silver-lining

After listening to the podcast, please respond to the following questions which provide you with the space to reflect on the concepts discussed and how they might be applied in your life.

Be sure that your responses are adequately thorough and detailed. Some of the answers may just be fill-in the blank while others clearly require more detail and full sentences. It might be helpful to take notes while listening to the podcast in order to appropriately answer the questions below. Keep in mind that the questions are asked in order of the podcast’s progression, making it easier to identify the answer.

Most of the answers to the questions below come directly from the Ted Talk video. There are a few questions which are considered “Personal Reflection” questions and are thus indicated as such in parentheses to avoid any confusion.

Questions:

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.”