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Michael Busseri is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Brock University. His research focuses primarily on subjective well-being, examining how people experience and evaluate their lives in positive versus negative ways. The main components of subjective well-being include high life satisfaction, frequent positive affect, and infrequent negative affect. His work investigates the temporal self-appraisals of well-being, particularly in young adults, exploring how they perceive their happiness and life satisfaction over time compared to older adults. Despite variations in self-perception based on age, Busseri's research suggests that long-term levels of well-being remain generally stable over time. He employs a subjective temporal perspective to address the underlying causes and consequences of individuals' beliefs about their past, present, and anticipated future well-being. Additionally, his work addresses the structure and function of subjective well-being, aiming to understand how components like life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect coalesce to define the construct of subjective well-being.
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