To Do or to Have? That Is the Question

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1193-1202

  Van Boven, Leaf ^b   Gilovich, Thomas ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IDENTITY; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; REVIEW; SATISFACTION;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0346361738     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.6.1193     Document Type: Review

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