Does Watching TV Make Us Happy

By Bruno S. Frey, Christine Benesch, Alois Stutzer. 2007

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Subfields: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, General Decision Sciences, Literature and Literary Theory

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National well-being and international sports events (2010, background): “Further research on the Easterlin Paradox includes Easterlin (2003), Frey and Stutzer (2005), Veenhoven (2005), Layard (2005b) and Di Tella and MacCulloch (2006), amongst others.”
Directed Attention as a Common Resource for Executive Functioning and Self-Regulation (2010, background): “Therefore, it is not surprising that people report lower life satisfaction and more anxiety after watching TV (Frey, Benesch, & Stutzer, 2007).”
How does happiness relate to economic behaviour? A review of the literature (2017, background): “…and Oswald, 2011 ), all of which are at least plausibly elated to happiness; SWB is reasonably stable within individuals ver time ( Fujita and Diener, 2005; Schimmack and Oishi, 2005; rueger and Schkade, 2008; Michalos and Kahlke, 2010 ); it predicts uture behaviours such as divorce (…”
Does the Internet Make People Happier (2011, unknown): “The time spent online can actually reduce the time available for face-to-face interaction (Nie, Hillygus and Erbring, 2002) and have the same negative impact on happiness as watching TV (Frey, Benesch and Stutzer, 2007).”
Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being (2010, background): “In a recent study, the subjective well-being of heavy TV viewers in 22 European countries in 2002/03 is analyzed (Frey et al. 2007).”
Aligning AI Optimization to Community Well-Being (2020, background): “…that suggests there is something like an addiction mechanism involved: “ individuals with incomplete control over, and foresight into, their own behavior watch more TV than they consider optimal for themselves and their well-being is lower than what could be achieved ” (Frey et al. 2007, p. 283).”
Income Aspirations, Television and Happiness: Evidence from the World Values Survey (2006, background): “Our results also qualify, and extend to a large and representative international data set, the findings in the recent studies by Frey et al. (2005) and Layard (2005).”