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DR@W Forum: Robb Rutledge (UCL)
Location: Wolfson Research Exchange Seminar Room 1
"A neural and computational model of momentary subjective well-being"
The subjective well-being or happiness of individuals is an important metric for societies, but we know little about how the cumulative influence of daily life events are aggregated into subjective feelings. Using computational modeling, we show that momentary subjective well-being in a probabilistic reward task is explained not by task earnings, but by the combined influence of recent reward expectations and prediction errors arising from those expectations.
The robustness of this account was evident in a large-scale smartphone-based replication with 18,420 participants.