Wealth, Warmth, and Well-Being: Whether Happiness is Relative or Absolute Depends on Whether it is about Money, Acquisition, or Consumption

By Christopher K. Hsee, Yang Yang, Naihe Li, Luxi Shen. 2009

157 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/76e8b1982e867f788e2386ee716c6f95eef4dc6c

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In Applied Psychology

1. Amit Bhattacharjee
2. Bernd H. Schmitt
3. Cassie Mogilner

In Social Psychology

1. Bernd H. Schmitt
2. Amit Bhattacharjee
3. Cassie Mogilner
4. John G. Lynch

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Amit Bhattacharjee
2. Cassie Mogilner
3. Bernd H. Schmitt
4. Ryan T. Howell
5. Darwin A. Guevarra

Citations in the corpus

• Experience Marketing: Concepts, Frameworks and Consumer Insights (2011, methodology): “In an article titled “Wealth, Warmth andWell-Being: Whether Happiness is Relative or Absolute Depends on Whether It is About Money, Acquisition, or Consumption,” Hsee et al. (2009) provide an answer that seems to sort out these seemingly incomparable views.”
• Happiness from Ordinary and Extraordinary Experiences (2014, background): “…empirical attention within economics, psychology, and consumer research (Dunn, Gilbert, and Wilson 2011; Dunn and Norton 2013; Easterlin 2003; Hsee et al. 2009; Labroo and Mukhopadhyay 2009; Labroo and Patrick 2009; Liu and Aaker 2008; Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, and Schkade 2005; Mogilner 2010;…”
• To have in order to do: Exploring the effects of consuming experiential products on well-being (2015, unknown): “…concerns directly undermine the well-being provided by material items (Carmon, Wertenbroch, & Zeelenberg, 2003; Ferraro, Escalas, & Bettman, 2011; Hsee, Yang, Li, & Shen, 2009; Rosenzweig & Gilovich, 2012; Zhang, Howell, & Caprariello, 2013; Zhang & Markman, 2001) in part because extrinsic…”
• The Motivating-Uncertainty Effect: Uncertainty Increases Resource Investment in the Process of Reward Pursuit (2015, unknown): “Because a $2 reward could appear larger when one compares it to $1 (Ariely, Loewenstein, and Prelec 2003; Hsee and Zhang 2010; Hsee et al. 2009, 2013; Zhang 2014), we let participants in both conditions see the $2 reward with the $1 reward as a reference.”