Sorry. Severe pain may have been a bad example. However, for instance, paraplegia does exhibit hedonic adaptation (source) despite having a disability weight of 0.57 (source).
I’m not sure what you think this meta-analysis contradicts. Could you please be more precise?
Card on the table, I’m more interested in ‘affective well-being’ than ‘cognitive well-being’ as they call it—i.e. ‘happiness’ rather than ’life satisfaction—and I take the meta-analysis as being broadly in my favour.
“hedonic adaptation applies to severe pain”
I find this implausible. Where’s the citation?
Sorry. Severe pain may have been a bad example. However, for instance, paraplegia does exhibit hedonic adaptation (source) despite having a disability weight of 0.57 (source).
A meta-analysis seems to contradict that (as well as claims in the OP): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3289759/
Good find. Should have known better than to trust well-established pysch findings. (sob) Thanks for the correction, I’ll edit the OP.
I’m not sure what you think this meta-analysis contradicts. Could you please be more precise?
Card on the table, I’m more interested in ‘affective well-being’ than ‘cognitive well-being’ as they call it—i.e. ‘happiness’ rather than ’life satisfaction—and I take the meta-analysis as being broadly in my favour.