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Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 715-730

Reign in hell or serve in heaven? A cross-country journey into the relative vs absolute perceptions of wellbeing

Author keywords

Cross country questionnaire study; Survey experiment; Wellbeing perceptions

Indexed keywords


EID: 84857190692     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2010.12.016     Document Type: Article
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