tehom@... (Tom Breton (Tehom)) writes:
>On the other hand, even though I summed it up in the word "happiness" or
>"satisfaction", the phrase "better off", to me, would cue a response about
>my personal circumstances more than one about my emotions. How would you
>cue respondents more strongly to focus away from their recollections of
>their emotions?

By not asking them to do intertemporal comparisons. You appear to have
suggested doing those comparisons in order to solve problems associated
with measuring emotions.
For measuring circumstances other than emotions, it's unclear what problems
you're worried about.

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