TY - JOUR
T1 - Looking up and looking down
T2 - Weighting good and bad information in life satisfaction judgments
AU - Diener, Ed
AU - Lucas, Richard E.
AU - Oishi, Shigehiro
AU - Suh, Eunkook M.
PY - 2002/4
Y1 - 2002/4
N2 - In two large international studies, the authors examined whether happy and unhappy individuals weighted life domains differently when constructing life satisfaction judgments. In both studies, regression equations predicting life satisfaction showed that there were significant interactions between happiness and a person's best domain and between happiness and a person's worst domain, even after controlling for participants' standing on all other domains. Happy participatifs weighted their best domains more heavily than did unhappy individuals, whereas unhappy individuals weighted their worst domains more heavily than did happy individuals. Thus, happy and unhappy people used different information when constructing satisfaction judgments.
AB - In two large international studies, the authors examined whether happy and unhappy individuals weighted life domains differently when constructing life satisfaction judgments. In both studies, regression equations predicting life satisfaction showed that there were significant interactions between happiness and a person's best domain and between happiness and a person's worst domain, even after controlling for participants' standing on all other domains. Happy participatifs weighted their best domains more heavily than did unhappy individuals, whereas unhappy individuals weighted their worst domains more heavily than did happy individuals. Thus, happy and unhappy people used different information when constructing satisfaction judgments.
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U2 - 10.1177/0146167202287002
DO - 10.1177/0146167202287002
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:23044534851
SN - 0146-1672
VL - 28
SP - 437
EP - 445
JO - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
JF - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
IS - 4
ER -