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 …

We study two dimensions of complexity that may interfere with individual choice. The first one is object complexity …, which corresponds to the difficulty in evaluating any given alternative in a choice set. The second dimension is composition …-with-evaluation-errors theory that incorporates both dimensions and delivers sharp empirical predictions about their effect on choice behavior. We …

of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and …

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered … happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey …

conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …-benefit considerations affect the acceptance of morally controversial transactions, and imply that trial studies of the effects of payments …

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

We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as … abiding by restrictions on consumption and behavior) decrease happiness while the spiritual aspects increase it. We also find …