The influence of evolution on subjective well-being: Is evolution biasing the evaluation of our subjective well-being?

The general aim of the current thesis is to explore the impact of evolution on human subjective well-being. Its original contribution lies in exploring whether the kind of worries philosophers and psychologists might have when reflecting on human morality and reasoning in the light of evolutionary influences might also apply in the context of subjective well-being. Are there evolutionary influences that might produce biases, mistakes, or inauthentic judgments and evaluations of our own subjective well-being? As evolution only cares about an organism’s reproductive fitness, there seems – at least on the surface – to be room to be wrong in that domain.

Grantor dc:publisher

Oxford Brookes University

Year dc:date

2022

Author dc:creator

• Dézèque, Fabien

Contributors dc:contributor

• Boulter, Stephen
• Cain, Mark

Statement dc:rights

• All rights reserved

Language dc:language

en

DOI dc:identifier

https://doi.org/10.24384/nrsd-r321

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