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06-13-2006, 12:45 AM
Consistent with the “nostalgia effect”, Brickman et al. (1978) found that individuals with SCI rated their past as being significantly happier than when a control sample rated their past. Interestingly, lottery winners rated winning the lottery as positive as the SCI sample rated sustaining their injury as negative.
Brickman, P., Coates, D., & Janoff-Bulman, R. (1978). Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36(8), 917-927.
Brickman, P., Coates, D., & Janoff-Bulman, R. (1978). Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36(8), 917-927.