Reexamining adaptation and the set point model of happiness: reactions to changes in marital status.

By Richard E. Lucas, Andrew E. Clark, Y. Georgellis, E. Diener. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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Achieving Sustainable Gains in Happiness: Change Your Actions, not Your Circumstances* (2006, background): “We believe these findings have important implications for a controversial, and under-studied, issue in well-being research (Lucas et al., 2003).”
Life (Dis)Satisfaction and the Intention to Migrate: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe (2014, neutral): “[43] and [44], among others).”
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being (2003, methodology): “8 I cannot explain the different results for marriage in the longitudinal analysis by Lucas et al. (2002) discussed in the text, but let me note two possibilities.”
Interpretations of Utility and Their Implications for the Valuation of Health (2008, methodology): “Using data from a 15- year study of over 24,000 Germans, Lucas et al. (2003) show that, on average, people experience an increase in happiness in the years surrounding marriage but after the second year of marriage they appear to return to their baseline.”
Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges (2008, neutral): “Valuable discussions, with examples, are in Lucas et al (2003) and Lyubomirsky et al 2005.”
Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being: Evidences for a New Domain in the Personal Well-Being Index (2009, neutral): “For instance, people can evaluate their satisfaction with their life as a whole, but they can also rate their satisfaction with specific life domains, including marriage ( Lucas et al. 2003 ), family life, goal pursuit (Emmons 1986), social relationships (Helliwell and Putnam 2004), health, achievem”
Personality and Subjective Well-Being (2009, background): “Divorce (Lucas, 2005), unemployment ( Lucas et al., 2003 ), and the onset of a long-term disability (Lucas, 2007) are all associated with lasting changes in life satisfaction, and the effects can sometimes be quite large.”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “More recent examples of adaptation in non-monetary spheres are Lucas et al. (2003) and Lucas (2005) with respect to marriage and divorce, Wu (2001) and Oswald and Powdthavee (2005) for adaptation to illness or disability, and Lucas et al. (2004) regarding unemployment.”
How’s Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness (2017, neutral): “…who remain married two or more years do not revert to their baseline value before marriage’’.4 The authors explain that their results differ from Lucas et al. (2003) because of ‘‘their [Lucas et al.] failure to treat age as varying with time, and thus to control for life circumstances that…”
Ordinal Methodology in the Analysis of Likert Scales (2007, background): “Recent studies in GSOEP attitude data include explicitly ordinal scale interpretations, see Ferrer-I-Carbonell and van Praag (2003) or Nolte and McKee (2004), and implicitly cardinal ones, see Lucas et al. (2003) or Ronellenfitsch and Razum (2004).”
The influence of personality and life events on subjective well-being from a life span perspective (2009, result): “In line with previous research regarding the influence of life events on SWB (Grob, 1991, 1995; Lu, 1999; Lucas, 2005; Lucas, 2007a, 2007b; Lucas et al., 2003, 2004) we further expected a direct positive association between positive life events and SWB and a negative association between negative…”
Getting off the Hedonic Treadmill, One Step at a Time: The Impact of Regular Religious Practice and Exercise on Well-Being (2008, background): “Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, and Diener (2003) examined the effects of marital status over time with a large representative sample.”
Beyond Money (2004, background): “For example, Lucas et al. (1996) found that life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect are separable but related concepts when assessed by multiple methods.”
Integrating The Diverse Definitions of Happiness: A Time-Sequential Framework of Subjective Well-Being (2005, background): “For example, women who started out with high life satisfaction showed a large drop when their husbands died, and then slowly recovered over a period of many years (Lucas et al., 2003).”