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Stability and change in affective experience across the adult life-span: Analyses with a national sample from Germany

Kunzmann, Ute; Richter, David; Schmukle, Stefan C. - 2013

sadness remains stable over most of adulthood and begins to increase in old age. In addition, the effects of age on happiness … were investigated; the cross-sectional evidence speaks for a steady decrease in happiness across age groups, but within …-person decline in happiness was only evident in old age. Together the findings provide further evidence for multidirectional age …

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Beyond Non-Satiation: Needs and Requirements

Pettini, Anna - 2014

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 …

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Affective reactions influence investment decisions: Evidence from a laboratory experiment with taxation

Schüßler, Katharina; Hewig, Johannes; Kiesewetter, Dirk; … - 2014

reactions of our participants, we explore the role of affect in the relation of taxation and decision making. Hence, we are able …

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Happiness and Development

Nikolova, Milena - 2016

Subjective well-being (SWB) indicators, such as positive and negative emotions, life evaluations, and assessments of having purpose and meaning and life are increasingly used alongside income, employment, and consumption measures to provide a more comprehensive view of human progress. SWB...

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Human well-being: concepts and conceptualizations

Gasper, Des - 2004

Economic measures of income have ignored large areas of human well-being and are poor measures of well-being in the areas to which they attend. Despite increased recognition of those distortions, ‘GNP per capita continues to be regarded as the quintessential indicator of a country’s living...

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The measurement of capabilities

Anand, Paul; Santos, Cristina; Smith, Ron - 2007

It has often been claimed that it is impossible to measure human capabilities but within the methodological conventions of household survey design, we show that some non-financial capability indicators do already exist and we demonstrate how similar indicators, covering a wide range of life...

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Measurement of human capabilities

Anand, Paul; Hunter, Graham; Carter, Ian; Dowding, Keith; … - 2007

which these capabilities are co-variates of a life satisfaction measure of utility (happiness) and finds that many are …

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Evidence from measuring community flood resilience in Asia

Laurien, Finn; Keating, Adriana - 2019

Disaster risk and subsequent loss and damage in Asia are increasing at an alarming rate, threatening socioeconomic gains. Arresting this rapid increase in exposure requires risk-informed development and urban planning - a challenging proposition complicated by multiple economic and political...

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"Everything is awesome": The LEGO movie and the affective politics of security

Goggin, Joyce - In: Finance and Society 3 (2017) 2, pp. 143-158

Scholarship on the finance-security nexus has typically been concerned with "first order" phenomena, such as the interpenetration of the finance and security sectors. This article contributes to the debate by turning to an apparent epiphenomenon, namely The LEGO Movie , and using it to address...

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Dramatic effects but fast adaptation: Changes in life satisfaction and different facets of affective well-being around the death of a partner and death of a child

Asselmann, Eva; Specht, Jule - 2022

-being (happiness, sadness, anxiety, and anger) in the years around the death of a partner (N =989) and child (N =276). Data on the … sadness, happiness, and life satisfaction in the first year of bereavement. Afterwards, bereaved individuals managed to … recover impressively well: Levels of life satisfaction, happiness, and sadness were on average similar 5 years after losing a …

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