The hypothesis of non-satiation of rational choice theory is very seldom posed under scrutiny, maybe because it is … psychology, we find out that non-satiation is indeed not a natural feature of human beings, but a challenge to their happiness …

Recent research is exploring the case for choice-induced changes in preferences using the free-choice paradigm of Brehm … (1956). Participants are faced with a choice between items that they have given the same rating of liking, two items at a … time, and it is found that an item not chosen in one choice has a lower tendency of being chosen in a subsequent choice …

typical “Tullock Challenges”. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second …Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are …

economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300 …. Independent longitudinal data corroborate the finding, showing that happiness is predictive of future motor vehicle accidents. Our … results are consistent with a rational-choice explanation: happy people value life and thus act to preserve it. …

vary in religiosity between secular and ultra–orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …

’ response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …