
Happiness Design with Laurie Santos
The Behavioral Design Podcast
Feelings Integers Are Better at Predicting Desperation
Feelings integers are better at predicting get me out of here action. So something like switching jobs, going to the hospital, moving, leaving a partner. They're more predictive than socioeconomic variables such as income or marital status. The psychology community got really annoyed by this idea that we can test what people are feeling using well-validated metrics since 1920s.
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