Utilizing sophisticated methodology and three decades of research
by the world’s leading expert on happiness, Happiness
challenges the present thinking of the causes and consequences of
happiness and redefines our modern notions of happiness.
* shares the results of three decades of research on our notions
of happiness
* covers the most important advances in our understanding of
happiness
* offers readers unparalleled access to the world’s leading
experts on happiness
* provides ‘real world’ examples that will resonate with general
readers as well as scholars
Winner of the 2008 PSP Prose Award for Excellence in
Psychology, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of
the Association of American Publishers
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Foreword by Carol Diener.
Part 1: Understanding true wealth.
1. Psychological Wealth: The Balanced Portfolio.
2. Two Principles of Psychological Wealth.
Part 2: Happy people function better.
3. Health and Happiness.
4. Happiness and Social Relationships: – You Can’t
Do Without Them.
5. Happiness at Work: It Pays to be Happy.
Part 3: Causes of happiness and genuine wealth.
6. Can Money Buy Happiness?
7. Religion, Spirituality, and Happiness.
8. The Happiest Places on Earth: Culture and Well-being.
9. Nature and Nurture–Is There a Happiness Set-Point, and
Can You Change It?
10. Our Crystal Balls: Happiness Forecasting.
11. Taking AIM: Attention, Interpretation, and Memory.
Part 4: Putting it all together.
12. Yes, You Can Be Too Happy.
13. Living Happily Ever After.
14. Measuring Your Psychological Wealth.
Epilogue: About the Science of Happiness.
Further Reading.
References.
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About the Authors
Ed Diener, Ph D, is the Joseph R. Smiley Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is recognized as the world’s foremost authority on the science of happiness. He is also a senior scientist for the Gallup Organization.
Robert Biswas-Diener, Program Director at the Center for Applied Positive Psychology (UK) and part-time lecturer at Portland State University, lives in Milwaukie, Oregon. He is known as the ‘Indiana Jones of positive psychology’ for his research on subjective well-being in remote cultures around the world.
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