- Homo Sapiens - Abstract While functional differences between today’s cell phones and traditional computers are becoming less clear, one difference remains plain – cell phones are almost always on-hand and allow users to connect with an array of services and networks at almost any time and any place. The Pew Center’s Internet and American Life Project suggests that college students are the most rapid adopters of cell phone technology and research is emerging which suggests high frequency cell phone use may be influencing their health and behavior. Thus, we investigated the relationships between total cell phone use (N = 496) and texting (N = 490) on Satisfaction with Life (SWL) in a large sample of college students. It was hypothesized that the relationship would be mediated by Academic Performance (GPA) and anxiety. Two separate path models indicated that the cell phone use and texting models had good overall fit. Cell phone use/texting was negatively related to GPA and positively related to anxiety; in turn, GPA was positively related to SWL while anxiety was negatively related to SWL. These findings add to the debate about student cell phone use, and how increased use may negatively impact academic performance, mental health, and subjective well-being or happiness. A short letter from a depressed lover- It’s with a feeling of deep hatred that I’m starting off this letter. I hope words will manage to convey my huge disappointment. You’ve made me look like a fool, you lied to me, you betrayed me and I didn’t even see it coming! You went as far as to transform a woman’s name into a man’s to keep me in the dark! Everything comes out one day, you should know that. It was a shock to see you reach such a new low! The worst being that it wasn’t just a fling, a one night stand after a booze filled night. No, you cheated on me for eight months straight, are you even aware of the humiliation that represents for me? How disappointed I am? Overflowing with sadness? I loved you so much, and it felt reasonable to think that you loved me too. You looked me in the eye and told me you loved me, only to sleep with another a few hours later!! Not to mention unprotected! I thought you were happy, you never told me our couple wasn’t working for you, yet it must have been the case, unless you were some kind of womanizer all along and I hadn’t noticed it. Nothing would surprise me at this point… I’m sick of your lies letter : a sad breakup letter I don’t even blame the poor girl, she’s in no way guilty she’s allowed to have fun with whomever she wants. But it’s my boyfriend who somehow just had to make a move. You say that you still love me, that you don’t want me to leave you, but I think all the signs point the same way : that is what, deep down, you were waiting for. You are a coward and a liar, two red flags when it comes to men. I gave you everything, I believed in us ; after a three year relationship, I assumed I was legitimately entitled to that much. You ruined everything. And to say I thought we had built our love on sturdy foundations. Images come and go, memories pile up, and going back to them just doesn’t make me happy anymore. They feel thin, foggy, shredded. How can I try to rebuild an enduring love on foundations destroyed by this long lasting treason? What can you do to reclaim my trust? Nothing. How could I even think about a future with an unfaithful man? Time might heal my wound and allow me to move forward, with you at my side. Maybe I will never manage to look you in the eye anymore. I don’t know, I just don’t know anymore, I am completely lost. Do you realize what eight months represent? Almost a year! Why? Why did you do this to us? I’m so angry at you, that no words could convey my feelings regarding you behavior. I’m ashamed of having believed you, ashamed of having given you my trust. Have you no regret? Good, you should, you deserve to. A brief story of love research- Most popular contemporary ideas about love can be traced to the classical Greek philosophers. Prominent in this regard is Plato’s Symposium. It is a systematic and seminal analysis whose major ideas have probably influenced contemporary work on love more than all subsequent philosophical work combined. However, four major intellectual developments of the 19th and 20th centuries provided key insights that helped shape the agenda for current research and theory of love. The first of these was led by Charles Darwin, who proposed that reproductive success was the central process underlying the evolution of species. Evolutionary theorizing has led directly to such currently popular concepts as mate preference, sexual mating strategies, and attachment, as well as to the adoption of a comparative approach across species. A second important figure was Sigmund Freud. He introduced many psychodynamic principles, such as the importance of early childhood experiences, the powerful impact of motives operating outside of awareness, the role of defenses in shaping the behavioral expression of motives, and the role of sexuality as a force in human behavior. A third historically significant figure was Margaret Mead. Mead expanded awareness with vivid descriptions of cultural variations in the expression of love and sexuality. This led researchers to consider the influence of socialization and to recognize cultural variation in many aspects of love. The emerging women’s movement during the 1970s also contributed to a cultural climate that made the study of what had been traditionally thought of as ‘‘women’s concerns’’ not only acceptable, but in fact necessary for the science of human behavior. At the same time, a group of social psychologists were beginning their work to show that adult love could be studied experimentally and in the laboratory. Any history of psychological research on love would be incomplete without reference to ‘‘l’affaire Proxmire.’’ In March 1975, William Proxmire, then a powerful U.S. Senator, gave the first of a series of so-called Golden Fleece awards to Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Hatfield, the two most prominent love researchers of the time. They had recently received a federal grant for their work, for what he saw as the misuse of federal tax-payer dollars on a topic ‘‘better left to poets.’’ For the ensuing years, that ill-informed and ignoble proclamation cast a pall not only on Berscheid and Hatfield, but on any scientist interested in studying love. To this day, politics occasionally obstructs funding for and the conduct and dissemination of research on love. Despite the political barrier to love research in the U.S., other countries, particularly Canada, have taken a more enlightened view, as have at least two private foundations. Life and Satisfactions? 1. Dimensions and Objects of Happiness Happiness has been the object of an enormous amount of philosophical reflection for a very long time. More recently, it has also been the object of a great deal of empirical work. Some of the philosophical or conceptual questions which have been raised are: What sort of an affective episode is happiness, the sort of thing which may but need not be felt at a time? What is the relation between happiness as an affective episode, and happiness as an enduring state or disposition? Is happiness, understood as an affective episode, ever an emotion? If so, what is its object, what is it about? Is happiness invariably a good thing? In what follows, I shall put forward and argue for some answers to these questions. I shall consider the last three questions in greater detail than the others since it seems to me that they have been neglected in the philosophy and science of happiness. My answers to these three questions rely on a number of assumptions which I shall make explicit but which must here remain mere assumptions. Is happiness always a positive emotion? TO BE CONTINUED.. THE MORAL- Life is all about happiness,anxiety and satisfaction. Admit it when you have it.