Mochon, Daniel; Norton, Michael I.; Ariely, Dan - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 29 (2008) 5, pp. 632-642
Many studies have shown that few events in life have a lasting impact on subjective well-being because of people's tendency to adapt quickly; worse, those events that do have a lasting impact tend to be negative. We suggest that while major events may not provide lasting increases in well-being,...