The Set Point Theory of Well-Being Has Serious Flaws: On the Eve of a Scientific Revolution?

By B. Headey. 2010

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. A. Tomyn
2. Ondrej Mitas
3. Robert Cummins
4. M. Stokes
5. M. Wooden
6. Ning Li
7. J. Nawijn
8. Johannes Zimmermann

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. A. Tomyn
2. Ondrej Mitas
3. Robert Cummins
4. M. Stokes
5. M. Wooden
6. Ning Li
7. Johannes Zimmermann
8. C. Kandler

In Social Psychology

1. A. Tomyn
2. Ondrej Mitas
3. Robert Cummins
4. M. Stokes
5. M. Wooden
6. Ning Li
7. Johannes Zimmermann
8. C. Kandler

Citations in the corpus

• Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being (2011, background): “Set-point theory of SWB has been a prevailing paradigm in psychology (Headey, 2010; Lucas et al, 2003).”
• Core and Surface Characteristics for the Description and Theory of Personality Differences and Development (2014, background): “These correlation results (Figure 1) have often been interpreted as evidence that self-related schemata reflect outcomes of basic personality traits (Headey, 2010).”
• The happiness of international migrants: A review of research findings (2015, background): “Ironically, non-pecuniary factors are the ones that lastingly affect happiness (Headey 2010).”
• A Demonstration of Set-Points for Subjective Wellbeing (2014, background): “The view of fixity was first introduced by Headey and Wearing (1989, 1992), and reiterated by Headey (2010).”
• The Subjective Wellbeing of High-School Students: Validating the Personal Wellbeing Index—School Children (2011, background): “However, more recently, Headey (2010) revisited his earlier work in an attempt to explain why over a 20 year period, 14–30% of German Socio-Economic Panel members recorded large and apparently permanent shifts in self-reported life satisfaction.”
• Resident Attitudes to Tourism and Their Effect on Subjective Well-Being (2012, background): “However, several studies have shown that the notion of happiness as being completely “set” is false (Diener and Lucas 2006; Headey 2008, 2010; Veenhoven 1994, 2010b, 2010d).”