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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved.

Matthew A Killingsworth, Daniel Kahneman, Barbara Mellers

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Narcissism and Wellbeing: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2026
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  16. Detecting Non-linear Dependence through Genome Wide Analysis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Matthew A KillingsworthUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0000-0003-0290-1403
Daniel KahnemanPrinceton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
Barbara MellersUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0000-0001-9869-5880

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Do larger incomes make people happier? Two authors of the present paper have published contradictory answers. Using dichotomous questions about the preceding day, [Kahneman and Deaton, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

Indexed as

EmotionsMultiple Acyl Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase DeficiencyApoptosisCluster AnalysisHappinessHumansSadnessexperience samplinghappinessincomeincome satiationWell-being

Identifiers

PMID36857342
PMCPMC10013834

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