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.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1978

DOI

10.1037/0022-3514.36.8.917

Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.36.8.917

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

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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