Posthumous events affect rated quality and happiness of lives

Diener and colleagues (2001) illustrated that individuals rely heavily on endings to evaluate the quality of a life. Two studies investigated the potential for posthumous events to affect rated life quality, calling into question the intuitive “ending” of a life at death. Undergraduates read a serie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paul Rozin, Jennifer Stellar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2009-06-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500003843/type/journal_article