Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our revi...

Three experiments investigated behavioural changes, using a temporal generalization paradigm with human subjects, resulting from repeated testing without feedback. In Experiment 1, different groups received five initial presentations of a 400 ms 500 Hz tone, or a 400 ms 14×14 cm blue square, identified as having a standard duration, then received blocks of testing where stimuli with durations s...

ITU-T Rec. P.913 is a new subjective video quality testing standard that was approved in January 2014. This Recommendation focuses on the evaluation of flat screens, laptops, and mobile devices. P.913 emphasizes flexibility of environment, rating scale, display technology, and stimulus modality (video, audio, or audiovisual). To balance this flexibility, P.913 includes mandatory reporting requi...

Studying how individuals compare two given quantitative stimuli, say d1 and d2, is a fundamental problem. One very common way to address it is through ratio estimation, that is to ask individuals not to give values to d1 and d2, but rather to give their estimates of the ratio p = d1/d2. Several psychophysical theories (the best known being Stevens’ power-law) claim that this ratio cannot be kno...

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems for many widely spoken languages have been developed and evolved over the last few decades. Such systems are being used in many different fields. Since these TTS systems have differences in the perceived sound quality, many speech quality test methods have been proposed to compare and evaluate their performance. Test materials for these tests, however, are language ...