Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness

Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A Moment-Based Approach

Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis

Standard economic analysis assumes that people make choices that maximise their utility. Yet both popular discourse and other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus adversely affect their own happiness. Most social sciences thus frequently describe some patterns of decision as suboptimal. We review evidence of suboptimal choices that arise for two reasons. Fir...

Toward National Well-Being Accounts

Economists have traditionally eschewed direct measures of well-being on methodological grounds: the private nature of experience and the discomfort of making interpersonal comparisons. Instead, income is often used as a proxy for opportunities and well-being. If people are not fully rational, however, their choices will not necessarily maximize their experienced utility, and increasing their op...

The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral Fordyce happiness training on psychological well-being and experienced Stress women with physical-motor disabilities

Due to the psychosocial consequences of disability and the need for study it, the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral Fordyce happiness training on psychological well-being and experienced stress in women with physical-motor disabilities. This study is quasi-experimental. The study population included all women with physical-motor disabilities in phy...

Clinical utility of indigenously formulated single-vial lyophilized HYNIC-TOC kit in evaluating Gastro-entero Pancreatic neuro endocrine tumours

  Objective(s): The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance and utility of 99mTc HYNIC-TOC planar scintigraphy and SPECT/CT in the diagnosis, staging and management of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GPNETs). Methods: 22 patients (median age, 46 years) with histologically proven gastroentero-pancreatic NETs underwent 99mTc HYNIC-TOC whole body scintigraphy and regi...