People have a tendency to judge stimuli relative to prior experience. For example, if a man's current income increases, he feels
an initial surge of pleasure. However, as he adapts to that income level, he comes to consider it normal. He then requires something better to feel another surge of happiness. This is known as:
Adaptation-Level Phenomenon can be defined as the way in which an individual adapt to every new situation in which once they adapt to it they consider it normal until another new situation arises which is why a person with ADAPTATION-LEVEL PHENOMENON personality will often and quickly adapt to a new situation, until that situation becomes the norm and whatever change the person experiences soon became the new normal due to the fact that new experience is often craved which in turn create a never ending process of continual growth and happiness for the person.
People have a tendency to judge stimuli relative to prior experience. For example, if a man's current income increases, he feels an initial surge of pleasure. However, as he adapts to that income level, he comes to consider it normal. He then requires something better to feel another surge of happiness. This is known as: the adaptation-level phenomenon
Adaptation-Level Phenomenon is how people adapt quickly to a new situation, until that situation becomes the new normal
.After getting a better income after a while it becomes normal and you are looking for something new and better man generally is insatiable. Our desires only grow bigger once we have adapted and conquered a particular level
