Between Pleasure and Contentment: Evolutionary Dynamics of Some Possible Parameters of Happiness.

We offer and test a simple operationalization of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being ("happiness") as mediating variables that link outcomes to motivation. In six evolutionary agent-based simulation experiments, we compared the relative performance of agents endowed with different combinatio...

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Main Authors: Yue Gao, Shimon Edelman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4856412?pdf=render