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Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work, social participation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Hours, Life Satisfaction, Well Being
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Houston-Price, Carmel; Nakai, Satsuki – Infant and Child Development, 2004
This paper considers possible problems researchers might face when interpreting the results of studies that employ variants of the preference procedure. Infants show a tendency to shift their preference from familiar to novel stimuli with increasing exposure to the familiar stimulus, a behaviour that is exploited by the habituation paradigm. This…
Descriptors: Infants, Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Preferences