This paper uses the Experience Sampling Method data drawn from a national sample of American youth. It examines the proximal environmental factors as well as behaviors and habits that correlate to personal happiness. Momentary-level scores show that reported happiness varies significantly both by day of week and time of day. Furthermore, particular activities are …
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Veenhoven, R. (1999). Quality-of-life in individualistic society. Social indicators research, 48(2), 159-188.
In the process of modernization, western societies became more individualistic. Ever since there have been claims that this development will create an unlivable society. Humans would need a Gemeinschaft and would wither in Gesellschaft. This classic idea lives in present day ‘communitarism’ and inspires pleas for the strengthening of moral bonds and preserving the …
Ng, Y. K. (1997). A case for happiness, cardinalism, and interpersonal comparability. The Economic Journal, 107(445), 1848-1858.
Modern economists are strongly biased in favour of preference (in contrast to happiness), ordinalism, and against interpersonal comparison. I wish to argue for the opposite. The proposed change in perspective has important conceptual and policy significance, as also evidenced in the papers by Frank and Oswald in this issue that I strongly endorse. Neoclassical …
Ng*, Y. K. (1978). Economic growth and social welfare: the need for a complete study of happiness. Kyklos, 31(4), 575-587.
Does economic growth increase social welfare (happiness)? Answers to such questions can only be provided by a complete analysis of all the objective, subjective, and institutional effects. All measures originate from the subjective world, working through the institutional setting to affect the objective world, the institutional setting and/or the subjective world. Due to the increasing …
Huppert, F. A., & Baylis, N. (2004). Well–being: towards an integration of psychology, neurobiology and social science.
The study of well–being is a rapidly evolving field, and an exquisite example of a truly multidisciplinary endeavour. Two of the strongest strands have emerged from recent research on positive psychology and on social capital, but the field reaches well beyond these domains. We summarize some of the major themes that unite these different approaches …
Slesnick, D. T. (1998). Empirical approaches to the measurement of welfare. Journal of Economic Literature, 36(4), 2108-2165.
초록 없음 Slesnick, D. T. (1998). Empirical approaches to the measurement of welfare. Journal of Economic Literature, 36(4), 2108-2165.
Ryff, C. D. (1989). Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57(6), 1069-1081.
Reigning measures of psychological well-being have little theoretical grounding, despite an extensive literature on the contours of positive functioning. Aspects of well-being derived from this literature (i.e., self-acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth) were operationalized. Three hundred and twenty-one men and women, divided among young, middle-aged, and …
Kahneman, D., &Thaler, R. H. (2006). Anomalies: Utility maximization and experienced utility. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(1), 221-234.
In this column, we discuss a version of the utility maximization hypothesis that can be tested—and we find that it is false. We review empirical challenges to utility maximization, which return to the old question of whether preferences optimize the experience of outcomes. Much of this work has focused on a necessary condition for …
Lewin, S. B. (1996). Economics and psychology: Lessons for our own day from the early twentieth century. Journal of Economic Literature, 34(3), 1293-1323.
초록 없음 Lewin, S. B. (1996). Economics and psychology: Lessons for our own day from the early twentieth century. Journal of Economic Literature, 34(3), 1293-1323. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2729503
Bosman, R., &Van Winden, F. (2010). Global risk, investment and emotions. Economica, 77(307), 451-471.
We investigate a novel dynamic choice problem in an experiment where emotions are measured through self‐reports. The choice problem concerns the investment of an amount of money in a safe option and a risky option when there is a ‘global risk’ of losing all earnings, from both options, including any return from the risky option. …