Chris, Nick and Fraser explore why the humbling of important public figures is particularly satisfying.

Political Schadenfreude

What things do we take for granted? Will new riches make us happier?

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Things mentioned in this podcast

Great Expectations by Dickens: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm 
Brickman and Campbell (1971) on the hedonic treadmill: http://faculty.som.yale.edu/ShaneFrederick/HedonicTreadmill.pdf
Kahneman and Tversky (1981) on framing effects: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/211/4481/453
Fujita and Deiner (2005) on life satisfaction set-points: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cd07/b0fe2babecfdf3821e9db8fc3e654fd341c6.pdf

Taking Stuff For Granted

Welcome to the Cognitive Engineering podcast. Occasionally coherent musings of Aleph Insights. We hope you like listening to them as much as we like recording them.

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