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Scaling happiness |
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| Authors: | Jelle de Boer |
| Affiliation: | Jelle de Boer is a researcher-lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and at Delft University of Technology. |
| Abstract: | This paper focuses on a particular method which is used in contemporary empirical happiness studies, namely measuring people's happiness by scoring their emotions (Kahneman is a prominent scholar). I examine the presupposition in this field that emotion scores can be added or subtracted, that throughout affective space runs a straight axis that plots hedonic tone or pleasure. |
| Keywords: | Affect Psychology Happiness Kahneman Pluralism Subjective Well-Being |