After 4 classes- 8-2: Happiness?
P. Brickman et al. (1978) reported that after a period of adjustment lottery winners were not much happier than a control group, and paraplegics were not much unhappier. On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:13:57AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote: > On 8/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There ought to be a pilot project: pick 200 unhappy people; and give > > therapy to 100, free of charge, and give, say, $3,000 a month (after > > tax), no strings attached, each to the other 100, and see which group > > gets well faster. > > that's hardly a "double blind" study (the "gold standard" of such > research) or anything like it. How about giving 200 people > cognitive-behavioral therapy and giving 200 a placebo, such as > Freudian therapy? > -- > Jim Devine / "Self-exhaustion in war has killed more states than any > foreign assailant." -- BH Liddell Hart. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com
