Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion

By Daniel Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger, D. Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, Arthur A. Stone. Science, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Yaacov Trope
2. Nira Liberman
3. Ondrej Mitas
4. Elke U. Weber
5. J. Nawijn
6. Michael I. Norton
7. Paul Dolan
8. Elizabeth W. Dunn

In Health

1. Robert Metcalfe
2. Paul Dolan
3. S. Oishi
4. Michael I. Norton
5. J. Nawijn
6. U. Schimmack
7. David Bartram
8. Elizabeth W. Dunn

In Social Psychology

1. S. Oishi
2. Paul Dolan
3. Robert Metcalfe
4. Ondrej Mitas
5. E. Diener
6. Yaacov Trope
7. J. Nawijn
8. Nira Liberman

Citations in the corpus

• Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience (2014, background): “Evaluative well-being and ExWB may have different implications for policy (Diener, 2011; Graham, 2011; Kahneman et al., 2006).”
• Social Support and Money as Pain Management Mechanisms (2008, background): “This could explain why money has a consistent but weak effect on happiness ( Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2006 ).”
• Global and Episodic Reports of Hedonic Experience (2006, neutral): “predictions ( Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2006 ).”
• Construal-Level Theory of Psychological Distance (2010, positive): “…of future experiences would therefore be more schematic than the actual experiences, giving rise to a variety of prediction biases that stem from underweighting contextual and incidental features (Gilbert & Wilson, 2007; Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2006; Wilson & Gilbert, 2003).”
• Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture (2012, background): “People often overestimate the impact of differences in income on well being (Kahneman et al. 2006) and underestimate the impact of an empty stomach on their grocery shopping decisions (Nisbett and Kanouse 1968).”
• Income, health, and well-being around the world: evidence from the Gallup World Poll. (2008, background): “Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, and Stone (2006) argue that even these measures overstate the effects of income.”
• A Model of Focusing in Economic Choice (2011, background): “The latter prediction is consistent with the view of several researchers, including Scitovsky (1976), Loewenstein, O’Donoghue and Rabin (2003), Kahneman et al. (2006), and Hamermesh and Slemrod (2008), that many people choose overly ambitious careers relative to what would make them happiest. Most c”
• The Influence of Environment and Personality on the Affective and Cognitive Component of Subjective Well-being (2008, background): “ Kahneman et al. (2006) interpreted this finding as a problem of CWB measures.”