The Shifting Meaning of Happiness

By Cassie Mogilner, Sepandar D. Kamvar, Jennifer L. Aaker. 2011

193 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6e801776f3130e553da94ab95ab59542d18e8a35

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In Social Psychology

1. Jordan Etkin
2. H. E. Nafstad
3. Pål Ulleberg
4. R. M. Blakar
5. Cassie Mogilner
6. E. Carlquist
7. A. Delle Fave

Citations in the corpus

• Everyday Understandings of Happiness, Good Life, and Satisfaction: Three Different Facets of Well-being (2017, background): “Somewhat in contrast, another study explored the semantic-associative network of happiness, specifically investigating co-occurring emotional terms in 12 million web blogs (Mogilner et al. 2010).”
• How Happiness Affects Choice (2011, unknown): “Our selection of music segments was informed by a pretest conducted by Mogilner et al. (2011) in which 21 participants, who ranged in age from 21 to 78, were presented with pairs of exciting and calm versions of five discrete songs and asked to rate on 5-point scales (1 p not at all, 5 p very much)…”
• Experiential Gifts Foster Stronger Social Relationships Than Material Gifts (2016, unknown): “We asked participants to focus on the moment they felt most emotional to remove the influence of hedonic adaptation that is more likely to have occurred for the more durable material gifts (Nicolao et al. 2009).”
• Does Variety Among Activities Increase Happiness (2016, background): “While emerging research points to specific types of activities associated with happiness (Bhattacharjee and Mogilner 2014; Kahneman et al. 2004; Mogilner 2010; Mogilner et al. 2011), people’s time is composed of multiple activities, not all of which individually generate happiness.”
• Eastern Conceptualizations of Happiness: Fundamental Differences with Western Views (2013, unknown): “Mogilner et al. (2011) found that, as Americans get older, they become more likely to associate happiness with peacefulness, which is consistent with an eastern understanding of happiness.”