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The Relativism of Absolute Judgments

In which it is proposed that happiness is a negatively skewed distribution. Experiments demonstrate how judgments of personal satisfaction depend on the frequency of different experiences

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 219 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “The Relativism of Absolute Judgments” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 219 No. 6 (), p. 84
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1268-84