Journal article
What can we learn from happiness surveys?
- Abstract:
-
Defenders of happiness surveys often claim that individuals are infallible judges of their own happiness. I argue that this claim is untrue. Happiness, like other emotions, has three features that make it vulnerable to introspective error: it is dispositional, it is intentional, and it is publically manifest. Other defenders of the survey method claim, more modestly, that individuals are in general reliable judges of their own happiness. I argue that this is probably true, but that it limits ...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Version of record, pdf, 163.1KB)
-
Why is the content I wish to access not available via ORA?
Bibliographic data (the information relating to research outputs) and full-text items (e.g. articles, theses, reports, etc.) arrive in ORA from several different sources. Unfortunately we are not able to make available the full-text for every research output.
Please contact the ORA team (
) if you have queries regarding unavailable content OR if you are aware of a full-text copy we can make available.
) if you have queries regarding unavailable content OR if you are aware of a full-text copy we can make available.
Content may be unavailable for the following four reasons
-
Version unsuitable
-
We have not obtained a suitable full-text for a given research output. See this page for more information.
-
Recently completed
-
Sometimes content is held in ORA but is unavailable for a fixed period of time to comply with the policies and wishes of rights holders.
-
Permissions
-
All content made available in ORA should comply with relevant rights, such as copyright. See this page for more information.
-
Clearance
-
Some thesis volumes scanned as part of the digitisation scheme funded by Dr Leonard Polonsky are currently unavailable due to sensitive material or uncleared third-party copyright content. We are attempting to contact authors whose theses are affected.
Alternative access to the full-text
You may be able to access the full-text directly from the publisher's website using the 'Publisher Copy' link in the 'Links & Downloads' box from a research output's ORA record page. This method may require an institutional or individual subscription to the journal/resource.
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Practical Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 20-32
- Publication date:
- 2014-12-01
- EISSN:
-
2051-655X
- ISSN:
-
2051-655X
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
-
uuid:0aea52c2-b0a9-4d03-a6ea-50d8bdcc0af0
- Local pid:
- ora:9811
- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-28
Related Items
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- University of Oxford
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © University of Oxford 2014. The material in this journal is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported licence. The full text of the licence is available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record