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Hedonomics: Bridging Decision Research With Happiness Research

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: One way to increase happiness is to increase the objective levels of external outcomes; another is to improve the presentation and choices among external outcomes without increasing their objective levels. Economists focus on the first method. We advocate the second, which we call hedonomics. Hedonomics studies (a) relationships between presentations (how a given set of out-comes are arranged among themselves or relative to other outcomes) and happiness and (b) relationships between choice (which option among alternative options one chooses) and happiness.

Source: Perspectives on Psychological Science

DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6924.2008.00076.x

Authors: Christopher K. Hsee, Reid Hastie, Jingqiu Chen

Institutions: University of Chicago, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Language: English

Topic: Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Subfield: General Decision Sciences

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1964013002

FWCI: 3.448

Cites: 183

Cited by: 79

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