Thinking about it: a note on attention and well-being losses from unemployment

This article investigates Schkade and Kahneman's (1998) maxim that ‘Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.’ This article shows that whilst becoming unemployed hurts psychologically, unemployment has a greater impact on happiness if the person a...

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Main Authors: Dolan, Paul., Powdthavee, Nattavudh.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98780
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12663
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English