Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy

By George Loewenstein, P. Ubel. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology

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Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “While there is now growing evidence regarding the misprediction of adaptation (see Riis et al., 2005, and the research reviewed in Loewenstein and Ubel, 2006), the information required to advocate paternalism is currently far from complete.”
Design of Stated Preference Surveys: Is There More to Learn from Behavioral Economics? (2010, background): “One question is how to deal with the fact that people adapt quickly to negative and positive outcomes (Loewenstein and Ubel 2008).”
Behavioral Environmental Economics: Promises and Challenges (2014, background): “…one or a combination of several approaches, including structural estimations of behavioral economics models, carefully designed experiments, introspection, surveys, self‐reported happiness, fMRI scanning and other methods (Kahneman and Sugden 2005, Beshears et al. 2008, Loewenstein and Ubel 2008).”
The pains and pleasures of parenting: when, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being? (2014, background): “The experience of a range of pleasant emotions is an important component of well-being and contributes to what makes one feel alive (Loewenstein & Ubel, 2008).”
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, unknown): “While there is now growing evidence regarding the misprediction of adaptation (see Riis et al., 2005, and the research reviewed in Loewenstein and Ubel, 2006), the information required to advocate paternalism is currently far from complete.”
On Nudging: A Review of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein (2009, background): “, 2003 ); one of those economists has also teamed up with a psychologist to offer a more nuanced account of soft paternalism (Loewenstein and Ubel, 2008 ).”