happiness interact in startling ways with the leading theories of criminal punishment. Punishment theorists, both retributivist … incarceration. These twin phenomena significantly disrupt efforts to attain proportionality between crime and punishment and to … achieve effective marginal deterrence. Hedonic psychology thus threatens to upend conventional conceptions of punishment and …

This paper provides evidence from Internet-based, large-scale survey data of hypothetical choice experiment on the …, incentivized choice experiment studies, and neuroscience studies in such a way that methodological problems among previous studies … is chosen endogenously. -- Relative utility ; Easterlin paradox ; Hypothetical choice experiment ; Reference group …

principle of emotion congruence, information processing is facilitated if its emotional tone matches an individual’s mood. The …