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Sub­jec­tive wellbeing

TagLast edit: 14 Jul 2022 16:34 UTC by Pablo

Subjective wellbeing (SWB) is a self-reported measure of a person’s wellbeing.

Further reading

Diener, Ed, Shigehiro Oishi & Louis Tay (2018) Advances in subjective well-being research, Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 2, pp. 253–260.

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MichaelStJules22 Jun 2020 16:41 UTC
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Tomer_Goloboy21 Mar 2022 1:23 UTC
15 points
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17 comments37 min readEA link
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Money barely in­creases hap­piness (un­less you re­ally value money, and even then not by much)

Dhruv Makwana11 Feb 2023 21:27 UTC
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12 comments3 min readEA link
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Michal Porwisz29 Dec 2023 10:23 UTC
24 points
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brb24321 Mar 2022 22:05 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Coach­ing: An un­der-ap­pre­ci­ated strat­egy among effec­tive altruists

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41 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

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10 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

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His­tory of the the­ory of well-being

davidhartsough22 Jun 2022 8:17 UTC
23 points
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8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ma­te­ri­als re­gard­ing RCTs and SWB

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3 points
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Ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ist The­o­ries of Well-Being

andzuck19 Feb 2021 20:26 UTC
34 points
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61 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing hap­piness in­creases happiness

Alexander Herwix 🔸15 Apr 2020 15:08 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
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Andreas_Mogensen14 Oct 2014 12:33 UTC
8 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

About ‘sub­jec­tive’ wellbe­ing and cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis in men­tal health

LondonGal30 Jul 2023 13:39 UTC
74 points
14 comments41 min readEA link

Sign of qual­ity of life in GiveWell’s analyses

brb24316 Oct 2022 14:54 UTC
57 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

StrongMinds (4 of 9) - Psy­chother­apy’s im­pact may be shorter lived than pre­vi­ously es­ti­mated

ishaan13 Dec 2023 4:15 UTC
62 points
1 comment24 min readEA link

Oddly, Bri­tain has never been happier

bfinn23 Oct 2019 9:29 UTC
18 points
19 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

tyleralterman31 Aug 2022 20:47 UTC
289 points
45 comments23 min readEA link

Global life satis­fac­tion distribution

Vasco Grilo🔸1 Oct 2022 15:39 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Inequal­ity, well-be­ing, and the prob­lem of the un­known re­port­ing function

Barry Grimes9 Dec 2022 16:28 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
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What’s the effect size of ther­apy? (StrongMinds 3 of 9)

ishaan8 Dec 2023 8:34 UTC
57 points
0 comments52 min readEA link

We’re search­ing for mean­ing, not hap­piness (et al.)

Joshua Clingo1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC
18 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Sur­vey—Psy­cholog­i­cal Im­pact of Long-Term AI Engagement

Manuela García17 Sep 2024 15:58 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Wide­spread val­ues brainstorming

brb24315 Mar 2022 12:45 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Look­ing for Re­sources/​Video on Well-be­ing Met­ric from Hap­piness Re­search Institute

Esmi23 Jan 2022 18:15 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Emer­gence re­search as a high-im­pact cause area

Open Philanthropy26 Aug 2022 9:58 UTC
13 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Vi­sual ana­log scale wellbe­ing data gath­er­ing method

brb2433 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC
3 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

The most good sys­tem vi­sual and sta­bi­liza­tion steps

brb24314 Mar 2022 23:54 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Bear­able Bright­ness of Wel­lbe­ing: The life of an HLI re­searcher

JoelMcGuire8 Apr 2022 14:13 UTC
56 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Notes on sup­port­ing Hap­pier Lives Institute

Pawel Sysiak6 Oct 2022 13:01 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Wel­lbe­ing height and depth visualizations

brb2433 Nov 2021 2:59 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Hap­piness for the whole house­hold: ac­count­ing for house­hold spillovers when com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of psy­chother­apy to cash trans­fers

JoelMcGuire14 Apr 2022 20:05 UTC
51 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

On Sleep Pro­cras­ti­na­tion: Go­ing To Bed At A Rea­son­able Hour

emily.fan16 Apr 2021 23:31 UTC
47 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

A re­view of two books on sur­vey-making

NunoSempere1 Mar 2020 19:11 UTC
33 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Vida Plena’s 2023 Im­pact Re­port: Mea­sur­ing Progress and Look­ing Ahead

Vida Plena23 Jul 2024 12:24 UTC
69 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

A can of worms: the non-sig­nifi­cant effect of de­worm­ing on hap­piness in the KLPS

Samuel Dupret21 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC
46 points
17 comments23 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Affec­tive fore­cast­ing: The challenge of pre­dict­ing fu­ture feel­ings and the im­pli­ca­tions for global pri­ori­ties research

Matt Coleman🔹17 Feb 2022 20:36 UTC
57 points
3 comments20 min readEA link
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