They interviewed twenty-nine individuals with quadriplegia or paraplegia, twenty-two lottery winners, and twenty-two controls, and they asked the interviewees to rate their general happiness and their current experience of mundane everyday pleasures. Although "lottery winners rated winning the lottery as a highly positive event, and paraplegics rated their accident as a highly negative event,
" the lottery winners were nonetheless less happy, and the accident victims happier, than the researchers had anticipated. In particular, lottery winners and controls "were not significantly different
" in their self-reported happiness ratings; and although accident victims did report that they "experienc[ed] their present as less happy than controls,"
their happiness rating was "still above the midpoint of the scale,
" and they "did not appear nearly as unhappy as might have been expected.
"__________
(Bagenstos, Samuel R. & Margo Schlanger (2007), "Hedonic Damages, Hedonic Adaptation, and Disability", Vanderbilt Law Review, 60, 761, citando Brickman, Philip, Dan Coates & Ronnie Janoff-Bulman (1978), "Lottery Winners and Accident Victims: Is Happiness Relative?", Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 36, 917ss.)
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