Michael Prinzing
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We had like over 40,000 observations from like 1,200 people.
And we're looking at how did you feel when you were making coffee this morning, when you were having dinner with your family, when you were at work doing this thing.
And then also, to what extent in each of these individual moments are people being patient, compassionate, self-controlled?
And the thought was to see, is there an association where when people are more compassionate, patient, self-controlled, they tend to feel better or worse?
And what we found was people who are consistently, habitually exercising these virtues tend to feel better than people who are
doing that less, but then also like take a given person when they are more patient, compassionate, self-controlled than they typically are, they feel better than they typically do.
But the thing that's actually slightly right about the more like Nietzsche type theory here is the situations in which people have opportunities to exercise these virtues do kind of suck.
So what we find is when you're in that situation that gives you an opportunity to exercise patience, like you're dealing with some jerk, somebody's just being super rude.
There's like a difficult person, you know, unpleasant emotion is elevated.
Pleasant emotion is suppressed.
People feel like they're not doing something very meaningful.
But then the more that people exercise patience in that situation, the better they tend to feel.
Even in that very moment.
So the patience helps you to feel better, not just in that moment, which it does, but then also if you're the sort of person who is consistently that way, you're going to have better overall wellbeing than somebody who's less so.
That's right.
Yeah, similar.
Yeah, it was very similar across these three.
I mean, when we started working on this paper, I was expecting to write this thing where the title is going to be like unpleasant virtues, like how some virtues suck.
But actually, it was exactly the opposite.
Across all three of these three cases, we found very similar patterns or results.
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