Alex C Michalos
Biographic Data
| ID | 195444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex C Michalos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex C |
| FAMILY NAME | Michalos |
| SIGNATURE | MICHALOS A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 108 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 104 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Ruut Veenhoven (1942-2024)
Section 1. Staking Out a Territory
Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement
Philosophical Foundations of Quality of Life
Philosophy of Social Science
Replies to Our Commentators
Progress in Measuring Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours Concerning Sustainable Development Among Tenth Grade Students in Manitoba
Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research
Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research
Signs of Context
Social Identity Theory
Emancipatory Research
Recovering Societies
Social Indicators Research
Encyclopedia Of Quality Of Life Research
Handbook of social indicators and quality-of-life research
Good Health is Not the Same as a Good Life
Measuring Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours Concerning Sustainable Development among Tenth Grade Students in Manitoba
What Did Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi Get Right and What Did They Get Wrong
Observations on Unacknowledged Authorship from Homer to Now
Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours. Concerning Education for Sustainable Development
Surveying Older Adults' Opinions on Housing
Stability and Sensitivity in Perceived Quality of Life Measures
Arts and the Perceived Quality of Life in British Columbia
Assessing Well-Being
Multiple discrepancies theory (MDT)
Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research
Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement was founded by Alex C. Michalos and published its first issue in March 1974. It has been the leading journal for scholarly research in its field for over thirty years. This volume is published in celebration of that record of accomplishment. The 19 articles assembled here are a selection drawn from the 34 (2.4%) most frequently cited article…
Satisfaction and happiness
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement
Education, Happiness and Wellbeing
Quality of Life Indexes for National Policy
Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement
Social Indicators Research and Health-Related Quality of Life Research
Tests of the causal directions of global ? Life facet satisfaction relationships
Health and the Quality of Life
Criminal Victimization and the Quality of Life
Satisfaction and happiness in a rural northern resource community
The satisfaction and happiness of some senior citizens in rural Ontario
Combining Social, Economic and Environmental Indicators to Measure Sustainable Human Well-Being
Measuring Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours Concerning Sustainable Development among Tenth Grade Students in Manitoba
An application of multiple discrepancies theory (MDT) to seniors
Public Services and the Quality of Life
Health and Other Aspects of the Quality of Life of Older People
A Note on the Dimensionality of Quality of Life Scales
Arts and the quality of life
Culture as a Moderator of Overall Life Satisfaction - Life Facet Satisfaction Relationships
Impact of Arts-Related Activities on the Perceived Quality of Life
Ethnicity, Modern Prejudice and the Quality of Life
Development of the Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS)
Determinants of Health and the Quality of Life in the Bella Coola Valley
Estimated Utility and Corroboration
Postulates of Rational Preference
The postulates of rational preference suggested by Von Neumann and Morgenstern have been defended as descriptive or empirical generalizations and as normative principles. It is argued that the postulates are inaccurate empirical generalizations and unacceptable normative principles
Descriptive Completeness and Linguistic Variance
Recently Wesley Salmon has argued that a certain class of confirmation functions ( C -functions) must be rejected for yielding contradictions. The C -functions involved happen to be the kind ingeniously constructed and employed most notably by Professor Carnap. More recently Keith Lehrer has argued that these C -functions may be salvaged by the adoption of a rule that eliminates certain languages. In the paragraphs that follow, it will be shown t…
Technology and Empire by George Grant (review)
340 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Diebold is not a messianic prophet of a mechanized society like Rich ard Landers, the author of Man’s Place in the Dybosphere, a book with which this one bears comparison at many points. The problems posed by technological change can in Diebold’s view only be met by the “development of the fundamental qualities that are inherent to some degree in every man—wisdom, morality, nobility. These cannot be built …
The costs of decision-making
The Sciences of the Artificial
Technology and Empire
Hilpinen's Rules of Acceptance and Inductive Logic
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
L. J. Cohen The implications of induction . London
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Efficiency and morality
Rationality between the maximizers and the satisficers
Political scientists on the political process
Strategies for reducing information overload in social reports
Social Indicators, a Rationale and Research Framework
Social Indicators Research
Life changes, illness and personal life satisfaction in a rural population
Life changes, illness and personal life satisfaction in a rural population
Facts, Values and Rational Decision Making
This paper introduces some distinctions related to facts and values, indicates some of the uses and misuses of these distinctions, and draws conclusions for the problem of rational decision making. A major claim is that everyone but metaphysicians should forget about the fact‐value distinction and get on with the pursuit of truth and the performance of good deeds
Analysis of happiness
Satisfaction and happiness
Social indicators, an annotated bibliography of current literature
North American Social Report
Rational Behavior and Bargaining Equilibrium in Games and Social Situations
North American Social Report
The Quality of Life
Sociology (61 works) · Psychology (59 works) · Medicine (56 works) · Public health (47 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (38 works) · Quality of Life Research (37 works) · Social Psychology (32 works) · Social science (31 works) · Happiness (29 works) · Political science (29 works)