Happiness and Human Relations: The Role of Materialistic Values. An ABM Illustration

Rojas, Mariano; López, Ignacio Ibarra

doi:10.9781/ijimai.2014.253

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“…The ABM approach has been previously applied to the study of emotions and motivation (e.g., [ 32 – 34 ]). For instance, Malfaz and Salichs [ 32 ] used it to model motivation as a combination of internal drives and external stimuli.…”

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Between Pleasure and Contentment: Evolutionary Dynamics of Some Possible Parameters of Happiness

Gao

Edelman

2016

PLoS ONE

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We offer and test a simple operationalization of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being (“happiness”) as mediating variables that link outcomes to motivation. In six evolutionary agent-based simulation experiments, we compared the relative performance of agents endowed with different combinations of happiness-related traits (parameter values), under four types of environmental conditions. We found (i) that the effects of attaching more weight to longer-term than to momentary happiness and of extending the memory for past happiness are both stronger in an environment where food is scarce; (ii) that in such an environment “relative consumption,” in which the agent’s well-being is negatively affected by that of its neighbors, is more detrimental to survival when food is scarce; and (iii) that having a positive outlook, under which agents’ longer-term happiness is increased by positive events more than it is decreased by negative ones, is generally advantageous.

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confidence: 99%