-being, they overwhelmingly focus on life satisfaction as the cognitive dimension of well-being. Little is known about the …-being by analyzing the frequency with which specific emotions are experienced in anticipation of and reaction to job loss … unemployed leads to more frequent experiences of unpleasant emotions only in the short run and that adaptation occurs more …

abandoned and experienced with less regret during old age. In a unique panel of 132,609 life satisfaction expectations matched … theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially … to subsequent realizations, I find people to err systematically in predicting their life satisfaction over the life cycle …

data from the European Commission's Business and Consumer Surveys on people's expectations of life in general, their … Recession and during Covid, but bounced back quickly, as did firms' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither … slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which has been rising …

utility theory. Beyond feelings, economic theorists use full-fledged specific emotions to explain behavior that otherwise … could not be understood or they study emotions out of interest for the emotion itself. While some analyses display a strong …

Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by …

emotions could decrease the use of punishments while keeping welfare high, possibly depending on pre-existing levels of … net earnings and self-reported emotions compared to a control condition (Natural). Although the interaction between the …

tests support a causal interpretation of this finding. Our results are consistent with immediate emotions stirred by a …

efficiency, while incidental emotions can impair it. Signals in specific brain areas can be a trigger precipitating a bubble …

How do emotions affect policy views on immigration? How do they influence the way people process and respond to factual … theft. Consistent with a causal role of emotions, we find that the rape news triggers a stronger emotional reaction than the … negative emotions are triggered, having more accurate factual knowledge no longer matters for forming policy views on …