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Just last month, a team led by Nobel-prizewinning psychologist Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University unveiled a new tool for sizing up happiness: the day-reconstruction method. Participants fill out a long diary and questionnaire detailing everything they did on the previous day and whom they were with at the time and rating a range of feelings during each episode (happy, impatient, depressed, worried, tired, etc.) on a seven-point scale. The method was tested on a group of 900 women in Texas with some surprising results. It turned out that the five most positive activities for these women were...
...DANIEL KAHNEMAN...
...Daniel Kahneman has for years been a leading researcher in the field of psychology, studying the way humans judge and make decisions...
...Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for these discoveries. He will receive a Doctor of Laws degree today...
...field of economics, theoretical models are predicated on people behaving rationally. Daniel Kahneman proved otherwise, perhaps because he is not an economist. A professor at Princeton University, Kahneman, 65, is a cognitive psychologist. In his studies he has shown that people are not particularly wise about assessing probability. His work, he has said, was inspired by such curiosities as finding that when polled, subjects said they would travel 20 minutes to save $5 on a $15 calculator but not spend the same time to save $5 on a $125 jacket. Kahneman won the prize, according to the committee, for "having...