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Article Dans Une Revue Social Choice and Welfare Année : 2001

A Cognitive Model of Individual Well-Being

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This paper offers a model of individual well-being that takes into account cognitive factors. It postulates that individuals compare payoffs to aspiration levels. The latter are determined by past experiences (adaptation), by other people's performance (interpersonal comparison), as well as by reasoning (justifications and excuses). We axiomatize a measure of well-being defined on real-valued vectors of various lengths. It is a linear combination of differences between payoffs and aspiration levels, where the aspiration level at each instance is a linear function of past payoffs.

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hal-00752296 , version 1 (15-11-2012)

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Itzhak Gilboa, David Schmeidler. A Cognitive Model of Individual Well-Being. Social Choice and Welfare, 2001, vol.18, issue 2, pp. 269-288. ⟨10.1007/s003550100103⟩. ⟨hal-00752296⟩

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