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Texts:

Happiness and economy
– GDP and Happiness
– Average Level of Satisfaction in 10 European Countries: Explanation of Differences 
– Is Unemployment more Costly than Inflation?
– The Effects of Age and Job Protection on the Welfare Costs of Inflation and Unemployment
– Adaptation or Social Comparison? The Effects of Income on Happiness
– How has the Recession Affected our Happiness?
– Subjective Well-Being in 97 Countries
– Boon or Bane? Others unemployment, well-being and job insecurity
– Reversing the Question: Does Happiness Affect Individual Economic Behaviour? Evidence from Survey Data from Netherlands
– Does Economic Growth Improve Human a Lot? Some Empirical Evidence
– Sustainable Consumption and Happiness

 

Happiness and Climate
– Weather as a Transient Influence on Survey-Reported Satisfaction with Life
– Subjective Well-Being and the Impact of Climate Change
– Weather and Financial Risk Taking: Is Happiness the Channel?
– The Impact of Climate on Life Satisfaction
– Good Day Sunshine: Stock Returns and the Weather

 

Happiness and society

 

Happiness overall

 

People associate lighting conditions with warmer color temperature with more social situations
– Biner, P. M., Butler, D. L., Fischer, A. R., & Westergren, A. J. (1989). An arousal optimization model of lighting level preferences: An interaction of social situation and task demands. Environment and Behavior, 21, 3-16.
– Butler, D. L., & Biner, P. M. (1987). Preferred lighting levels: Variability among settings, behaviors, and individuals.Environment and Behavior, 19, 695-721.
– Flynn, J. E. (1977). A study of subjective responses to low energy and nonuniform lighting systems. Lighting Design and Application, 7, 6-15

 

Physical warmth correlates with warm and social interactions
– IJzerman, H., & Semin, G. R. (2009). The thermometer of social relations: mapping social proximity on temperature.Psychological Science, 20, 1214-1220
– Zhong, C.-B., & Leonardelli, G.J. (2008). Cold and lonely: Does social exclusion literally feel cold? Psychological Science, 19, 838–842.
– Williams, L.E., & Bargh, J.A. (2008). Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science, 322, 606–607.

 

Light Therapy
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Mehta and R. J. Zhu. Blue or Red? Exploring the Effects of Color on Cognitive Task Performances. Science 323 (5918):1226-1229, 2009.
Bradley, M. M., Lang, P. J.. Measuring emotion: The self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 25, 49-59, 1994.
Monk, T. H. A Visual Analogue Scale Technique to Measure Global Vigor and Affect. Psychiatry Research, 27, 89-99, 1988.
Partonen, T., Lonnqvist, J. Bright light improves vitality and alleviates distress in healthy people. Journal of Affective Disorders, 57, 55-61, 2000.