Thinking, Fast and Slow

provides physiological information, such as continuous recordings of heart
rate, occasional records of blood pressure, or samples of saliva for
chemical analysis. The method is called Ecological Momentary
Assessment: Arthur A. Stone, Saul S. Shiffman, and Marten W. DeVries,
“Ecological Momentary Assessment Well-Being: The Foundations of
Hedonic Psychology,” in Kahneman, Diener, and Schwarz, Well-Being ,
26 – 39.
spend their time : Daniel Kahneman et al., “A Survey Method for
Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method,”
Science 306 ( 2004 ): 1776 – 80. Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger,
“Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being,” Journal of
Economic Perspectives 20 ( 2006 ): 3 – 24.
physiological indications of emotion : Previous research had documented
that people are able to “relive” feelings they had in a past situation when
the situation is retrieved in sufficiently vivid detail. Michael D. Robinson
and Gerald L. Clore, “Belief and Feeling: Evidence for an Accessibility
Model of Emotional Self-Report,” Psychological Bulletin 128 ( 2002 ): 934 –
60.
state the U-index : Alan B. Krueger, ed., Measuring the Subjective Well-
Being of Nations: National Accounts of Time Use and Well-Being
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 ).
distributio {i>dll-Being : Ed Diener, “Most People Are Happy,”
Psychological Science 7 ( 1996 ): 181 – 85.
Gallup World Poll : For a number of years I have been one of several
Senior Scientists associated with the efforts of the Gallup Organization in
the domain of well-being.
more than 450 , 000 responses : Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton,
“High Income Improves Evaluation of Life but Not Emotional Well-Being,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 ( 2010 ): 16489 –
93.
worse for the very poor : Dylan M. Smith, Kenneth M. Langa, Mohammed
U. Kabeto, and Peter Ubel, “Health, Wealth, and Happiness: Financial
Resources Buffer Subjective Well-Being After the Onset of a Disability,”
Psychological Science 16 ( 2005 ): 663 – 66.
$ 75 , 000 in high-cost areas : In a TED talk I presented in February 2010 I
mentioned a preliminary estimate of $ 60 , 000 , which was later corrected.
eat a bar of chocolate! : Jordi Quoidbach, Elizabeth W. Dunn, K. V.
Petrides, and Moïra Mikolajczak, “Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away: The
Dual Effect of Wealth on Happiness,” Psychological Science 21 ( 2010 ):
759 – 63.