Income Reliably Predicts Daily Sadness, but Not Happiness: A Replication and Extension of Kushlev, Dunn, and Lucas (2015)

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 828-836

  Hudson, Nathan W ^a   Lucas, Richard E ^a   Donnellan, M Brent ^b   Kushlev, Kostadin ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; day reconstruction method; emotion; happiness; income; sadness; well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994158595     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550616657599     Document Type: Article

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