Why do we believe that more money will buy us more happiness (when in fact it does not)? In this paper, we propose a model to explain this puzzle. The model incorporates both adaptation and social comparison. A rational person who fully accounted for the dynamics of these factors would indeed buy more happiness with money. We argue that projection bias, the tendency to project our current refer...

This study examined self-reported emotions and emotional facial expressions following moral transgressions using an ethnically diverse sample of 242 4-, 8-, and 12-year-old children. Selfreported emotions were examined in response to three transgression contexts: an intentional harm, an instance of social exclusion, and an omission of a prosocial duty. Children’s emotional expressions of sadnes...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the overall health and happiness of healthy mothers of children with sleep disorder. Methods and material: This study was cross sectional study. To collect data from general health questionnaire (GHQ -28) with 28 questions and four subscales (somatic disorders, anxiety, social dysfunction and depression) and Oxford happiness questionnaire on five facto...

Editor's Note: Leading off this issue is an essay by psychologist Patrick Jordan in which he describes a "good society framework" that he has synthesized from prior quality of life and social indicators work. He invites readers to send him any thoughts, comments, or recommendations. This is followed by my review of a volume advancing a sociological view of happiness with essays from a group of ...

The article analyzes various aspects of overall happiness expressed by 136 women in poverty who are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Nicaragua, a country with low levels of development. The information was gathered using a structured interview. Results obtained show that despite the hardships they face, one half of the women in poverty who are victims of IPV say they are happy, and...

It is clear that unreinforced repetition (familiarization) influences affective responses to social stimuli, but its effects on the perception of facial emotion are unknown. Reporting the results of two experiments, we show for the first time that repeated exposure enhances the perceived happiness of facial expressions. In Experiment 1, using a paradigm in which subjects' responses were orthogo...

Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our revi...