UCD GEARY INSTITUTE DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Naturalistic monitoring of the affect-heart rate relationship: A Day Reconstruction Study

UCD CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH WORKING PAPER SERIES 2008 Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking

This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland that combined detailed psychometric testing with medical testing and realtime bio-tracking, we examine the distribution of a number of psychometric measures linked to the economic concept of time pr...

UCD GEARY INSTITUTE DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Who Benefits from Child Benefit ?

Naturalistic monitoring of the affect-heart rate relationship: a day reconstruction study.

OBJECTIVE Prospective studies have linked negative affect with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. This study aims to identify if cardiovascular activity in day-to-day settings is related to affect levels as assessed using the Day Reconstruction Method (Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2004). DESIGN 186 people underwent baseline physiological testing and were mon...

Handedness and depression: evidence from a large population survey

The UCD community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters! (@ucd_oa) Some rights reserved. For more information, please see the item record link above. Title Handedness and depression : evidence from a large population survey Author(s) Denny, Kevin Publication date 2008-06-13 Series UCD Geary Institute Discussion Paper Series; WP/15/...

UCD GEARY INSTITUTE DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions

This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the extent to which individuals use features of the expenditure question to construct their answers. We test whether respondents interpret question wording as researchers intend and examine the extent to which prompts, clarifications and seemingly arbitrary features of survey design...