When talking about child actors that start losing attention and can't comprehend it, Mara Wilson states that "Adults know that infatuation is fleeting, but kids don't understand this" (1).
Shane Frederick writes in H-Baumeister "It is widely assumed that material circumstances strongly affect human happiness...objective outcomes and happiness are not perfectly correlated" (419).
Mara Wilson was a child star actor that featured in many hit films such as Ms. Doubtfire and Matilda. She now writes articles for a well renown satirical website. Mara makes a great point in the article 7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider's Perspective) that appeared on cracked.com in May of 2007 when she says "Nearly every teenager rebels. But most of them have about five people they need to answer to when they screw up...Now imagine if you, as a kid, had millions of people watching your every move" (2).
http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-reasons-child-stars-go-crazy-an-insiders-perspective_p2/
http://faculty.som.yale.edu/ShaneFrederick/HedonicTreadmill.pdf?subject=Please%20mail%20a%20hard%20copy%20of
http://bgoodscience.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/teen-rebellion-mapped-in-the-brain/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-the-trenches/201106/the-child-performer
http://www.heavemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/macaulay-culkin-0.jpg
Shane Frederick implies that a constant income of pleasure or happiness begins to fade and eventually flat lines to a normal level. The same can be said when the opposite occurs.
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