What makes workers happy?

Happy and Unhappy Competitors: What Makes the Difference

Interpersonal competition is present in all arenas of our life, i.e. within the family, in school, among peers, in the workplace, and in the sports ground. Competition can be an immensely joyful, exciting, and motivating experience that contributes to goal attainment, self-evaluation, development and improvement of the individual, the competing parties, the group and the society. However, it ca...

Attraction, Selection, and Satisfaction — Understanding what makes happy couples

In this study, the authors examined differences in relationship investment and satisfaction in heterosexual and homosexual relationships. Their sample consisted of four groups of 25 people each: gay men, straight men, lesbian women, and straight women. All participants were relatively young, between 20 and 40 years old, and demographically equivalent in terms of income, educational level, and r...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Decision and experience: why don't we choose what makes us happy?

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest among psychologists and other social scientists in subjective well-being and happiness. Here we review selected contributions to this development from the literature on behavioral-decision theory. In particular, we examine many, somewhat surprising, findings that show people systematically fail to predict or choose what maximizes their happiness, a...

What Makes Lawyers Happy?: A Data- Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success

This is the first theory-guided empirical research seeking to identify the correlates and contributors to the well-being and life satisfaction of lawyers. Data from several thousand lawyers in four states provide insights about diverse factors from law school and one’s legal career and personal life. Striking patterns appear repeatedly in the data and raise serious questions about the common pr...