Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be … predictive of behavior in economic games? It is undoubted that personality can influence large-scale economic outcomes. Whether …

significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size …

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …