{"id":224,"date":"2007-12-29T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/hope-is-a-bad-thing"},"modified":"2007-12-29T00:31:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T19:31:20","slug":"hope-is-a-bad-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/hope-is-a-bad-thing","title":{"rendered":"Hope is a bad thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People often say things like &#8220;At least he has some hope&#8221;, assuming this is obviously a good thing. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/09\/magazine\/09quit.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine&amp;oref=slogin\">NYT magazine article<\/a> begs to differ:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prisoners with life sentences but with the possibility of parole adapt less well to prison life, for example, than prisoners with life sentences without the possibility of parole. &#8230; The research team &#8230; tracked people who had portions of their colons removed or bypassed, such that the patients couldn&#8217;t defecate normally. The condition is extremely unpleasant and leads many people to say they&#8217;d rather be dead. &#8230; But a colostomy isn&#8217;t always permanent. Some patients are likely to heal and have their bowels reconnected. .  Were it up to the patient to choose, &#8220;almost anybody would choose temporary over permanent,&#8221; Ubel says.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s surprising that the permanent-colostomy patients ended up happier six months after the operation than the temporary group, whose members were still holding out hope. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/09\/magazine\/09quit.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine&amp;oref=slogin\">full article<\/a>. Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2007\/12\/too-much-hope.html\">overcoming bias<\/a> which goes on to make this interesting statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tyler says people can be happier in a caste society, where the lack of mobility means no one can blame your position on your lack of effort.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often say things like &#8220;At least he has some hope&#8221;, assuming this is obviously a good thing. This NYT magazine article begs to differ: Prisoners with life sentences but with the possibility of parole adapt less well to prison life, for example, than prisoners with life sentences without the possibility of parole. &#8230; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/hope-is-a-bad-thing\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hope is a bad thing?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}