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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Dolan, Paul., Powdthavee, Nattavudh.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98780; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12663
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

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...