Does Living in California Make People Happy? A Focusing Illusion in Judgments of Life Satisfaction

Schkade, & Kahneman. (1998). Does Living in California Make People Happy? A Focusing Illusion in Judgments of Life Satisfaction. Psychological Science.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1998

DOI

10.1111/1467-9280.00066

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00066

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Focusing Effect (Focusing Illusion)
  • The focusing effect — also called the focusing illusion — is a cognitive bias in evaluative judgment, characterised by Schkade and Kahneman (1998) as the systematic overweighting of any attribute that is currently the focus of attention when assessing a complex multi-attribute target, while all attributes not presently in focus are underweighted relative to their actual causal contribution to the outcome

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