Yasui,T, Sueyoshi,T, Isozaki,T, Asukai, M, Yamakawa, M, Egami, H, Honjo,Y, Maeno, T
Sixth Worrd Congress on Positive Psychology (WCPP2019) 2019年7月
This paper used the CS algorithm (Isozaki 2014) to infer the factors directly correlated with subjective well-being when spending money. In recent years, three lines of research have emerged regarding the correlation between happiness and money spending. First, studies focusing on income and other social attributes (e.g., Diener and Oishi 2000, Kahneman 2010, Frey and Stuzer 2006). Second, studies in behavioral economics, known for concepts such as mental accounting, risk aversion, experiential consumption, and hyperbolic discounting (e.g., Tversky and Kahneman 1992, Thaler 1999, Boven and Gilovich 2003, Kahneman et al. on DRM 2004, Ikeda and Kang on hyperbolic discounting). Finally, there is prosocial consumption (e.g., Akin, Dunn, and Norton 2011). However, since these studies were unable to rule out spurious or indirect correlations, this paper used a causal discovery algorithm to identify factors directly correlated with subjective well-being at the time of monetary payment.