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title: ""In their study, Kahneman and Killingsworth surveyed 33,391 adults…"
date: 2023-11-10
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# "In their study, Kahneman and Killingsworth surveyed 33,391 adults…

*November 10, 2023 · Facebook*

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\"In their study, Kahneman and Killingsworth surveyed 33,391 adults aged between 18 and 65 who live in the United States, are employed and report a household income of least \$10,000 a year. The authors said they lacked substantial data for those earning over \$500,000.\
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To measure their happiness, participants were asked to report on their feelings at random intervals in the day via a smartphone app developed by Killingsworth called Track Your Happiness. Killingsworth said in an email that the data came from "repeatedly pinging people at randomly-timed moments during daily life, and asking about their happiness at that moment in real-time." Specifically, they were asked "How do you feel right now?" on a scale ranging from "very bad" to "very good," he said.\"\
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[https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/08/money-wealth-happiness-study/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/08/money-wealth-happiness-study/){target="_blank"}\
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Original study:\
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[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1011492107](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1011492107){target="_blank"}
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