PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Extraversion And Introversion, Heritability, Easterlin Paradox
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In fact, maybe happier people get married. ways: people who have higher subjective well being may be more likely to get married. It also the case tat being married reduces the emotional stress of life. Heritability of swb: heritability h squared is a measure of the overall variance of a phenotypic characteristic that is based on the variance. It is the relationship between how much money you want and how much you have: we get used to whatever income we have. Initially it makes you happier when you get more, but then eventually it returns to the same level you were before. It is not the absolute amount of money you have that make you happy. It is your income relative to those around you. If you are making more than those around you, you judge yourself to be better off. If you are dong worse then you say you are worse off.
