Four experiments indicated that positive affect, induced by means of seeing a few minutes of a comedy film or by...
Survey respondents are often asked to report the frequency with which they engage in a certain behavior by checking the...
The standard economic model of decision making assumes a decision maker makes her choices to maximize her utility or happiness....
Investigated the effects of a person's positive affective state on his or her subsequent helpfulness to others. "Feeling good" was...
Neuroeconomics uses knowledge about brain mechanisms to inform economic analysis, and roots economics in biology. It opens up the "black...
The measurement of preferences is an ongoing challenge for economists. New insights can be won by relying on reported subjective...
This paper is an empirical investigation into the validity of some theses posed in . There it is stated (1)...
Using a ''subjectivist'' approach to the assessment of happiness, a new 4-item measure of global subjective happiness was developed and...
Aspiring for financial success is an important aspect of capitalist cultures. Three studies examine the hypothesis that values and expectancies...
In a review of recent cross-cultural evidence on happiness and well-being, the authors identified substantial cultural variations in (1) cultural...