Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1978, Pages 917-927

  Brickman, Philip ^a   Coates, Dan ^b   Janoff Bulman, Ronnie ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

adaptation level approach, relative happiness ; pleasure derived from good fortune, lottery winners vs accident victims

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUADRIPLEGIA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HABITUATION (PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY); HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PARAPLEGIA; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 85047683481     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.36.8.917     Document Type: Article

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