Effect of perceived social distributions on subjective well-being
General Information
Title
Effect of perceived social distributions on subjective well-being
Project Number
21
Abstract
In this study, we focus on factors underlying the concept of well-being, in particular the extent to which well-being is affected by social comparison processes. Previous studies have looked at how well-being can be predicted by people’s relative position, for instance with respect to income or health, within an objectively defined population distribution. It may be that people’s well-being might be better predicted by the subjective, rather than by the objective distributions of properties such as income or health. We intend to investigate this.
Longitudinal Type
Project
Begin date
07-07-2008
End date
29-10-2008
Researcher
Galesic, Mirta, Rieskamp, Jörg, Olsson, Hendrik
Publisher
CentERdata
Copyright
© 2009 CentERdata
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xuf-wm4v
Publications
A sampling model of social judgment. Psychological Review, 125(3), 363-390; Galesic, M.,
et al.
An information sampling explanation for the in-group heterogeneity effect Psychological Review, 127(1), 47–73; Konovalova, E.,
et al.
Learning variability from experience Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; Konovalova, E.,
et al.