Advances and open questions in the science of subjective well-being

E Diener, RE Lucas, S Oishi - Collabra: Psychology, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
Subjective well-being (SWB) is an extremely active area of research with about 170,000
articles and books published on the topic in the past 15 years. Methodological and …

Do we really know what makes us happy? A review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being

P Dolan, T Peasgood, M White - Journal of economic psychology, 2008 - Elsevier
There is increasing interest in the “economics of happiness”, reflected by the number of
articles that are appearing in mainstream economics journals that consider subjective well …

[BOOK][B] Satisfaction: A behavioral perspective on the consumer: A behavioral perspective on the consumer

RL Oliver - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
Designed for advanced MBA and doctoral courses in Consumer Behavior and Customer
Satisfaction, this is the definitive text on the meaning, causes, and consequences of …

[BOOK][B] Animal spirits: How human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism

GA Akerlof, RJ Shiller - 2010 - degruyter.com
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are
imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to …

[BOOK][B] The technology trap: Capital, labor, and power in the age of automation

CB Frey - 2019 - books.google.com
From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes
a swee** look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the …

Well-being over time in Britain and the USA

DG Blanchflower, AJ Oswald - Journal of public economics, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper studies happiness in the United States and Great Britain. Reported levels of well-
being have declined over the last quarter of a century in the US; life satisfaction has run …

Findings all psychologists should know from the new science on subjective well-being.

E Diener, SJ Heintzelman, K Kushlev… - Canadian Psychology …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Nous avons assisté lors des dernières décennies à une forte croissance de la science du
bien-être subjectif, les publications se chiffrant actuellement à environ 14 000 par année …

Relative income, happiness, and utility: An explanation for the Easterlin paradox and other puzzles

AE Clark, P Frijters, MA Shields - Journal of Economic literature, 2008 - aeaweb.org
The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant
over time despite sharp rises in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has …

Inequality and happiness: are Europeans and Americans different?

A Alesina, R Di Tella, R MacCulloch - Journal of public economics, 2004 - Elsevier
We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well-being using a total
of 123,668 answers to a survey question about “happiness”. We find that individuals have a …

Theory and validity of life satisfaction scales

E Diener, R Inglehart, L Tay - Social indicators research, 2013 - Springer
National accounts of subjective well-being are being considered and adopted by nations. In
order to be useful for policy deliberations, the measures of life satisfaction must be …