Procedural rationality and happiness

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 376-383

  Castellani, Marco ^a,b   Di Giovinazzo, Viviana ^c   Novarese, Marco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b GECS Research Group in Experimental and Computational Sociology   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspirations; Expectations; Happiness; Procedural rationality; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953287698     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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