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Strack, Fritz; And Others – 1984
Comparison processes play an important role in any kind of judgment, including judgments about one's well-being. To find out how information about one's own life influences judgments of well-being, two experiments were conducted with a sample of 52 students. It was hypothesized that spatial, temporal, and social distance would influence judgments.…
Descriptors: College Students, Etiology, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluative Thinking