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David Schkade
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 80
Citations - 18335
David Schkade is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Punitive damages & Life satisfaction. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 79 publications receiving 17147 citations. Previous affiliations of David Schkade include Temple University & Institute for the Study of Labor.
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A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method
TL;DR: The DRM's utility is shown by documenting close correspondences between the DRM reports of 909 employed women and established results from experience sampling, and an analysis of the hedonic treadmill shows its potential for well-being research.
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Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that a person's chronic happiness level is governed by three major factors: a genetically determined set point for happiness, happiness-relevant circumstantial factors, and happiness relevant activities and practices.
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Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion
Daniel Kahneman,Alan B. Krueger,Alan B. Krueger,David Schkade,Norbert Schwarz,Arthur A. Stone +5 more
TL;DR: It is argued that people exaggerate the contribution of income to happiness because they focus, in part, on conventional achievements when evaluating their life or the lives of others.
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Does Living in California Make People Happy? A Focusing Illusion in Judgments of Life Satisfaction
David Schkade,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that satisfaction with climate and with cultural opportunities accounted for the higher overall life satisfaction predicted for Californians compared to those living in the US Midwest and the US Southern California regions, respectively.
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Economic Preferences or Attitude Expressions?: An Analysis of Dollar Responses to Public Issues
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that participants in contingent valuation surveys and jurors setting punitive damages in civil trials provide answers denominated in dollars, rather than as indications of economic preferences, and that these answers are better understood as expressions of attitudes than as indicators of economic preference.