Posthumous events affect rated quality and happiness of lives

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 273-279

  Rozin, Paul ^a   Stellar, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Death; Endings; Happiness; Positive psychology; Posthumous events; Quality of life; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350151119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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