Bribery

Yesterday I read the papers that were interesting to read (Daniel Gilbert and Kenneth Gergen). Today I have to get tough. Today I have to offer rewards.

If I read all four optimism assessment papers, then I can spend time looking at any scholarly book I want, even Hume.

If I read all four optimism papers and two from any other stack (schema research, category theory, types of memory, nature phenomenology, and intersubjectivity), then I can read Hogfather.

Types of alienation!?

• Powerlessness


• Vegetativeness


• Nihilism


• Adventurousness

Maddi, Kobasa, & Hoover. (1979). An alienation test. Humanistic Psychology 19: 73-76.