Publication Date:
2006-07-01
Description:
The belief that high income is associated with good mood is widespread but mostly illusory. People with above-average income are relatively satisfied with their lives but are barely happier than others in moment-to-moment experience, tend to be more tense, and do not spend more time in particularly enjoyable activities. Moreover, the effect of income on life satisfaction seems to be transient. We argue that people exaggerate the contribution of income to happiness because they focus, in part, on conventional achievements when evaluating their life or the lives of others.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kahneman, Daniel -- Krueger, Alan B -- Schkade, David -- Schwarz, Norbert -- Stone, Arthur A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Jun 30;312(5782):1908-10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16809528" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Affect
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Emotions
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*Happiness
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Humans
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*Income
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Leisure Activities
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Motivation
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*Personal Satisfaction
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Stress, Physiological
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Work
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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