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Application of affective engineering to service industries : feelings from airlines' in-flight service elements

Park, Min-Je; Park, Jong Woo; Yoo, Hanjoo - In: Total quality management & business excellence : an … 29 (2018) 9, pp. 1025-1042

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The effects of positive feelings and arousal on privacy decision-making

Steudner, Tobias - 2021

The goal of this study is to contribute to the underexplored interplay of unrelated positive feelings and arousal and … perform structural equation modeling based on an extended privacy calculus model. Drawing on the feelings …-as-information theory, more positively valenced feelings, even when evoked by an unrelated stimulus, should lead to a higher willingness to …

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Natural hazard risk and life satisfaction : empirical evidence for U.S. hurricanes

Berlemann, Michael; Eurich, Marina - 2020

The ongoing process of climate change goes along with an increase in the frequency and severity of various sorts of natural disasters. While the existing literature has almost exclusively focused on studying the direct effects resulting from different types of disasters, the effect of changing...

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Portuguese cities' happiness

Jesus, Diana; Lencastre, Inês; Pais, Marta; Salvador, … - 2015

Happiness is an aspiration of every human being, and can also be a measure of social progress. Yet can one say that citizens are happy? If they are not, what if anything can be done about it? (Helliwell, Layard, & Sachs, 2013, p. 3) Understanding cities and citizenship has become a common place...

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When place is too big : happy town and unhappy metropolis

Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam - 2015 - Draft: Monday 10th November, 2014

Most scholars in urban studies, public policy and public administration support city living, that is, they (usually implicitly) suggest that people are happy in cities or at least they focus on how to make people happy in cities. Planners also largely focus on making cities happy places, e.g.,...

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[Predicting GDP of 289 NUTS regions in Europe with 'subjective' indicators for human and social capital]

Weckroth, Mikko; Kemppainen, Teemu; Sørensen, Jens … - 2015

Most of the aggregate level analyses on the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in...

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Mandeville on charity schools : happiness, social order and the psychology of poverty

Pongiglione, Francesca; Tolonen, Mikko - In: Erasmus journal for philosophy and economics : EJPE 9 (2016) 1, pp. 82-100

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The relationships between living conditions and life satisfaction of elderly people in Istanbul : 54th European Congress of the Regional Science Association 26th-29th August 2014 i...

Berkoz, Lale; Yirmibesoclu, Funda - 2014

The rate of the elderly population increases rapidly throughout the world. The growth rate of the elderly population in the world is 2.1%, whereas the overall population growth rate is over 1.2 % (Mandiraoglu, 2010). The elderly population rate in the United States varies between 15% and 20 %....

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The significance of neighborhood in Istanbul

Topçu, E. Ümran - 2011

The neighborhood is prominent in contemporary urban studies. One reason for choosing neighborhood as a unit of action is that the neighborhood provides an efficient scale within which to measure any change in target population's circumstances. Neighborhood here is defined as the bundle of...

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Keeping up with the Joneses by finding a better-paid job : the effect of relative income on job mobility

Kronenberg, Kristin; Kronenberg, Tobias - 2011

It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self-reported happiness. This suggests that people who aim at increasing their happiness should try to find a better-paid job if their relative income is low. In this paper we study this...

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