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Friday, November 13, 2015

Expectations and Happiness

[The formula explained in brief:
“Happiness depends on safe choices (certain rewards, CR), expectations associated with risky choices (expected value, EV), and whether the outcomes of risky choices were better or worse than expected. This final variable is called a reward prediction error (RPE), the difference between the experienced outcome and the expectation.”] - Excerpt

The secret to happiness expressed as one neat mathematical formula

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