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- Title
Counting your blessings and keeping up with the Joneses.
- Abstract
The article explores the happiness setpoint or hedonic treadmill, wherein any given person, despite ups and downs due to circumstances, subjective well-being repeatedly revert to a certain level. Hereditary accounts for individual differences in experienced happiness. It examines the reason people persist in believing that they would surely be happier if say, they had a little more money. It distinguishes expressed satisfaction with life and day-to-day or moment-to-moment positive affect or absence of negative affect.
- Subjects
HAPPINESS; HEDONISM; WELL-being; QUALITY of life; SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Harvard Mental Health Letter, 2006, Vol 23, Issue 5, p6
- ISSN
1057-5022
- Publication type
Article