Value Judgments: Toward a Relational Theory of Happiness
Published 1 January 1984
Allen Parducci
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This chapter presents a theory of happiness. Its basic premise is that the experienced value of any event depends upon comparisons with other events. Values are relative. This is a theory about what they are relative to.
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