A Book Review of The pursuit of happiness: a review of ''Buddha's Brain'' by Rick Hanson.
Developing interventions to increase happiness is a major focus of the emerging field of positive psychology. Common beliefs about the need to reduce stress to obtain happiness suggest that stress management activities should be included in these interventions....
Technological progress seems to open ways for redesigning the human organism. This means that the affective system that is built into the brain by evolution...
From philosophical and intuitive sources I find three goods that should serve as ultimate ends in assessing a high quality of life: subjective well-being human development and justice....
ABSTRACT. This article addresses the question of which societal characteristics are likely to enhance subjective well-being....
In this paper two philosophical issues are discussed that hold special interest for empirical researchers studying happiness. The first issue concerns the question of how the psychological notion(s) of happiness invoked in empirical research relates to those traditionally employed by philosophers....
ABSTRACT. This paper argues that both the relativist and the pessimist critiques of the idea of progress are inadequate. Progress is defined as increase in global...
Movie Review: How happy can you be?, Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, USA. DVD (2006), 52 minutes, US$390. www.icarusFilms.com
Drawing on her own groundbreaking research with thousands of men and women, research psychologist and University of California professor of psychology Sonja Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives-in the short term and over the long term....
Kashdan Biswas-Diener and King (2008) debated with Waterman (2008) the value of eudaimonic perspectives in well-being research. In this invited response we discuss problems associated with reducing the conceptualization of well-being to subjective well-being (SWB)....
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