Sun and water: On a modulus-based measurement of happiness

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 213-218

  Hsee, Christopher K ^a   Tang, Judy Ningyu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

Author keywords

Happiness; Measurement scale; Renorming; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RATING SCALE; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD;

AFFECT; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOLAR SYSTEM; WATER;

EID: 33947276288     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.1.213     Document Type: Article

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