In an investigation of a group of individuals living in an industrial city in France, a personality psychologist finds that the degree of happiness is only moderately correlated with how much money individuals have in the bank. The personality psychologist repeats this study with a group of tribal individuals living deep in the jungle and finds that happiness is only moderately correlated with how many goats individuals have in their herd. Such research represents an attempt by the research to establish the ________ of the relationship between happiness and wealth.

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The research aims to determine if the relationship between happiness and wealth holds true across different cultures and contexts, which is an attempt to establish the generalizability of the findings.

In an Investigation of a Group of Individuals Living in an Industrial