caa a22 4500 469037105 CHVBK 20180323132758.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00300462 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00300462 Correlations, causes and heuristics in surveys of life satisfaction [Elektronische Daten] [Craig Fox, Daniel Kahneman] Satisfaction with life domains is more highly correlated with interpersonal than with intrapersonal comparisons (Emmons and Diener, 1985). The hypothesis of the present studies is that the high correlations reflect inferences of social comparison from global satisfaction. Paradoxically, such inferences are most likely in private domains (love life, friends), where social information is scarce and relatively unimportant as a determinant of satisfaction. Study I replicates the Emmons-Diener findings, but also finds that subjects judge recent changes more important than social standing as a determinant of life satisfaction, especially in private domains. Study II examines an order effect in judgments of satisfaction. As hypothesized the correlation between social comparison and global satisfaction is higher (in private domains only) when global satisfaction is judged first than when the order of judgment is reversed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Fox Craig Dept. of Psychology, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Kahneman Daniel Dept. of Psychology, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/3(1992-11-01), 221-234 0303-8300 27:3<221 1992 27 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00300462 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00300462 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fox Craig Dept. of Psychology, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kahneman Daniel Dept. of Psychology, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/3(1992-11-01), 221-234 0303-8300 27:3<221 1992 27 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer