Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?¶
Brickman, Coates, & Janoff-Bulman. (1978). Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?: Is happiness relative?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Domain-specific¶
- Focusing Effect (Focusing Illusion)
- The same pattern explains systematic overestimates of the hedonic impact of winning a lottery, becoming paraplegic, receiving a pay raise, or relocating to a sunnier city
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- The same pattern explains systematic overestimates of the hedonic impact of winning a lottery, becoming paraplegic, receiving a pay raise, or relocating to a sunnier city
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