Happiness

Book Review: The pursuit of happiness: a review of ''Buddha's Brain''

A Book Review of The pursuit of happiness: a review of ''Buddha's Brain'' by Rick Hanson.

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Stressed and Happy? Investigating the Relationship Between Happiness and Perceived Stress

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....

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Transhumanism and the Wisdom of Old Genes: Is Neurotechnology a Source of Future Happiness?

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...

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Diminishing Returns to Income Companionship - and Happiness

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....

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Explaining Differences in Societal Levels of Happiness: Relative Standards Need Fulfillment Culture and Evaluation Theory

ABSTRACT. This article addresses the question of which societal characteristics are likely to enhance subjective well-being....

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Two Philisophical Problems in the Study of Happiness

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....

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Global Progress I: Empirical Evidence for Ongoing Increase in Quality - of - Life

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...

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How happy can you be? - Movie Review

Movie Review: How happy can you be?, Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, USA. DVD (2006), 52 minutes, US$390. www.icarusFilms.com

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The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach To Getting The Life You Want

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....

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Wellness as healthy functioning or wellness as happiness: the importance of eudaimonic thinking (response to the Kashdan et al. and Waterman discussion)

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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