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Koizumi cabinet period, a relatively low-income position is negatively related to happiness for non-LDP supporters but not for … the effect of relative income position on happiness levels. Namely, during the Koizumi cabinet period, low …
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This paper investigates how people's happiness depends on their current activities and on time. We conducted an hourly … web survey, in which 70 students reported their happiness every hour on one day every month from December 2006 to February … computers. Our new method has the same strength of ESM in that it can measure real-time happiness data and thus avoid reflection …
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The positive relationship between trust and happiness has been demonstrated by the literature. However, it is not clear … probe how the relationship between trust and happiness was influenced by the Great East Japan Earthquake by comparing the …-determined positive relationship between trust and happiness and this relationship was strengthened by disaster, especially for residents …
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significantly unhappier on the day following the election. However, happiness returned to the previous level in one or two days … that the happiness level of those whose expectation of the election results were realized did not change, while that of …
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difference in happiness is not attributable to the difference of attributes and personalities, rejecting hypothesis 1). On the … other hand, the happiness of cabinet and anti-cabinet supporters was not significantly different after an election in which …
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This paper investigates whether Japanese people were happy and unhappy with the general election conducted on September 11, 2005, in which the Prime Minister, Koizumi, won a landslide victory. We conducted a large survey just after the election to ask people how happy they were and which party...
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-scientific thinking. These modes of thinking are identified by factor analysis from a 2008 survey. Income and happiness are used as … affect it. While non-scientific thinking lowers happiness, paranormality raises it. Extending the model, we find that higher … ability and self-control result in higher income and happiness. Selfishness raises income, but diminishes happiness. These …
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Extant research has found that an individual's happiness is relative with respect to income, suggesting that it rises … the perception of reference-group income in determining an individual's happiness and his/her decision in line with the … conducted with panel data. Second, the positive relationship between relative consciousness and happiness found in the U …
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This paper examines the impact of the failed coup d'état attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, on people's happiness …
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This paper uses Japanese data which includes measures of self-declared satisfaction, reference-group income, and the direction and intensity of income comparisons. Relative to Europeans, the Japanese compare more to friends and less to colleagues, and compare their incomes more. The relationship...
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