Happiness Research Papers
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Happiness - General Topics
Recent Findings on Subjective Well-Being by Ed Diener, Eunkook Suh, and
Shigehiro Oishi
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener/hottopic/paper1.html
New Directions in Subjective Well-being by Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener
http://s.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener/hottopic/NEW_DIRECTIONS.html
HAPPINESS: HAS SOCIAL SCIENCE A CLUE? by Richard Layard Lionel Robbins
Memorial Lectures 2002/3. Delivered on 3, 4, 5 March 2003 at the London School
of Economics http://cep.lse.ac.uk/events/lectures/layard/RL030303.pdf
What would make a happier society? by Richard Layard, Lionel Robbins Memorial
Lectures 2002/3. Delivered on 3, 4, 5 March 2003 at the London School of
Economics
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/events/lectures/layard/RL050303.pdf
Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A Moment-Based Approach by Daniel
Kahneman, Princeton University, Chapter 37, pp. 673-692, in: D. Kahneman and A.
Tversky (Eds.) Choices, Values and Frames, New York: Cambridge University Press
and the Russell Sage Foundation, (2000)
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/files/Kahneman.pdf
HEDONISM AND HAPPINESS by Ruut Veenhoven In: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2003
vol. 4. (special issue on 'Art of living') pp. 437-457
http://www2.eur.nl/fsw/research/veenhoven/Pub2000s/2003c-full.pdf
Is Anybody Happy? http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/pdfs/3466.pdf
Subjective Well-Being Is Desirable, But Not the Summum Bonum
Ed Diener, University of Illinois and the Gallup Organization
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tiberius/workshop_papers/Diener.pdf
Building a Better Theory of Well-being by Richard A. Easterlin
University of Southern California
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/economics/event/content/Easterlin_Bettertheory.pdf
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What Makes us Happy?
HAPPINESS: THE EFFECTS OF HEALTH, WEALTH, CHILDREN
AND A STEADY RELATIONSHIP by Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Paul Frijters, published
in the July 2004 Economic Journal.
http://www.res.org.uk/society/mediabriefings/pdfs/2004/july04/ferrer.pdf
The Determinants of Happiness: Some Migration Evidence by Evan Osborne,
Wright State University and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic
Research
http://www.wright.edu/~eosborne/research/migration.aej.pdf
Happiness, Hope, and Optimism by Patricia A. Dunavold, (spring 1997)
http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/students/happy.htm
Pets provide happiness, lower stress for elderly by Jennifer White, Kansas State
Collegian, Tuesday September 15, 1998
http://www.vet.ksu.edu/studentorgs/petsnpeople/pdf/Pets.pdf
Highlights from the Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness, Dimensions
and Perspectives of Gratitude, Co-Investigators: Robert A. Emmons, University of
California, Davis, (contact: raemmons@ucdavis.edu; 530.752.8844) Michael E.
McCullough, University of Miami (contact: mikem@miami.edu; 305.284.8057)
http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/mmccullough/Gratitude-Related%20Stuff/highlights_fall_2003.pdf
Vengefulness: Relationships With Forgiveness, Rumination, Well-Being, and the
Big Five by Michael E. McCullough, National Institute for Healthcare Research,
C. Garth Bellah, Louisiana Tech University, Shelley Dean Kilpatrick, National
Institute for Healthcare Research, Judith L. Johnson, Christopher Newport
University
http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/mmccullough/Papers/McCullough.pdf
Maximizing Versus Satisficing: Happiness Is a Matter of Choice by Barry Schwartz
and Andrew Ward, Swarthmore College, John Monterosso
University of Pennsylvania, Sonja Lyubomirsky, University of California,
Riverside and Katherine White and Darrin R. Lehman, University of British
Columbia
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/maximizing.pdf
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Happiness and Genetics
The Heritability of Happiness by David T. Lykken, Professor of Psychology,
University of Minnesota
http://www.psych.umn.edu/psylabs/happness/hapindex.htm
Happiness Is a Stochastic Phenomenon by David Lykken and Auke Tellegen,
University of Minnesota, Psychological Science Vol.7, No. 3, May 1996
http://www.psych.umn.edu/psylabs/happness/happy.htm
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Measuring Happiness
Subjective Measures of Well-being by Ruut Veenhoven, April 2004
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/dps/dps2004/dp2004-007.pdf
Reexamining Adaptation and the Set Point Model of Happiness:
Reactions to Changes in Marital Status by Richard E. Lucas
Michigan State University, Andrew E. Clark, De´partement et Laboratoire
d’Economie The´orique et Applique´e Yannis Georgellis, Brunel University and Ed
Diener University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/press_releases/march_2003/psp843527.pdf
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Happiness and Public Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC POLICY AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sasi/publications/2003/dorling_and_ward_happiness.pdf
WHY SOCIAL POLICY NEEDS SUBJECTIVE INDICATORS by RUUT VEENHOVEN
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/conferences/socialcapital/Happiness%20Readings/Veenhoven_2002.pdf
Assessing well being among traumatized children in foster care: The reality
behind the numbers by Rosalind Folman, Ph.D
http://www.igpa.uiuc.edu/events/pdf/traumatizedChildren2.pdf
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Happiness and Geography
How Happy Hong Kong Are? A Study on Happiness Index of Hong Kong People. A
research project jointly organized by the Department of Applied Social Studies
of CityU and Radio One of RTHK, Principal Investigator: Dr. Dennis Wong,
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of
Hong Kong
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/prj/YSNet/happiness/A%20Study%20on%20Happiness%20Index%20of%20Hong%20Kong%20People%20(Sep%202002).pdf
Are Scandinavians Happier than Asians? Issues in Comparing Nations on Subjective
Well-Being by Ed Diener, University of Illinois and the Gallup Organization and
Shigehiro Oishi University of Minnesota
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener/hottopic/diener-oishi.pdf
Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA by David G. Blanchflower
Department of Economics, Dartmouth College and NBER
USA, blanchflower@dartmouth.edu, Andrew J. Oswald, Department of Economics,
Warwick University, UK andrew.oswald@warwick.ac.uk
October 2000
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~blnchflr/papers/Wellbeingnew.pdf
Location, Location, Location: The Miss-prediction of Satisfaction in Housing
Lotteries
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~tdw/dunn.location.pspb.2003.pdf-
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Happiness and Marriage
Marital Status and Happiness, 1972–1996 by Mary Margaret Adams
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-051299-225359/unrestricted/thesis.PDF
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Happiness and Religion
Church Attendance and Happiness Among Northern Irish Undergraduate Students: No
Association by Christopher Alan Lewis
http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~chris/70.pdf
The Relationship Between Religion and Happiness Among German Students by Leslie
J. Francis, Hans-Georg Ziebertz, and Christopher Alan Lewis
http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~chris/81.pdf
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Happiness and Crime
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Happiness and Money
WILL MONEY INCREASE SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING? A Literature Review and Guide to
Needed Research by ED DIENER and ROBERT BISWAS-DIENER, (Accepted 14 September
2001)
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/conferences/socialcapital/Happiness%20Readings/Diener_Biswas-Diener_2002.pdf
The Multidimensionality of Poverty: A Subjective Well-Being Approach by Mariano
RojasDepartment of Economics, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico,
e-mail: mrojas@mail.udlap.mx
http://www.wider.unu.edu/conference/conference-2003-2/conference%202003-2-papers/papers-pdf/Rojas%20150403.pdf
Work Orientation and the Contingency of Job Satisfaction and Subjective
Well-Being on Annual Income: A Longitudinal Assessment by Ariel Malka and
Jennifer A. Chatman, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers2/0102/02-090.pdf
A Non-Technical Introduction to the Economics of Happiness by
Andrew Oswald andrew.oswald@warwick.ac.uk December 1999
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/intro.pdf
Happiness, Wealth, and Corporate Social Responsibility by Tom Bateman, May 26,
2003
http://iintegra.infotech.sk/downloads/82_CSR-Happiness.pdf
Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study by David G. Blanchflower, Bruce V
Rauner ’78 Professor of Economics
Dartmouth College and NBER USA, blanchflower@dartmouth.edu and Andrew J. Oswald,
Professor of Economics, Warwick University, UK,
mailto:andrew.oswald@warwick.ac.uk
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~blnchflr/papers/sentScanJEsexmoneyhappinessjune2003pdf
WHAT CAN ECONOMISTS LEARN FROM HAPPINESS
RESEARCH? by BRUNO S. FREY and ALOIS STUTZER1
(final version dated 7 January 2002)
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/conferences/socialcapital/Happiness%20Readings/Frey_Stutzer_JEL.pdf
FRUSTRATED ACHIEVERS: WINNERS, LOSERS, AND SUBJECTIVE WELL BEING IN NEW MARKET
ECONOMIES by Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato*
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/econ/Durlauf/networkweb1/London/frustratedachievers.pdf
The Role of Income Aspirations in Individual Happiness by Alois Stutzer,
University of Zurich
http://www.iew.unizh.ch/home/stutzer/downloads/Stutzer_Aspiration.pdf
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS VERSUS LOTTERIES: HAPPINESS, RESPONSE-MODE EFFECTS, AND
PREFERENCE REVERSALS
Eva Camacho-Cuena*, Christian Seidl**, and Andrea Morone***
*Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Christian–Albrechts–Universität zu Kiel,
Germany, and University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain, **Institut für
Volkswirtschaftslehre der Christian–Albrechts–Universität zu Kiel, Germany.
***Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Christian–Albrechts–Universität zu
Kiel, Germany, and ESSE, University of Bari, Italy.
http://www.grid.ensam.estp.fr/furxi/abstracts/seidl_christian.pdf
EVOLUTIONARY EFFICIENCY AND MEAN REVERSION IN
HAPPINESS by LUIS RAYO AND GARY S. BECKER
http://home.uchicago.edu/~gbecker/RayoBeckerLSE1.pdf
HAPPINESS RESEARCH: STATE AND PROSPECTS by Bruno S. Frey, Alois
Stutzer*University of Zurich and CREMA- Center for Research in Economics,
Management and the Arts (31 May 2004). Institute for Empirical Research in
Economics, University of Zurich Working Paper Series ISSN 1424-0459, Working
Paper No. 190 Happiness Research: State and Prospects Bruno S. Frey and Alois
Stutzer June 2004
http://www.iew.unizh.ch/wp/iewwp190.pdf
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Happiness and Age
Does Subjective Well-Being Increase with Age? by Brian Scott Ehrlich and Derek
M. Isaacowitz
http://bespin.stwing.upenn.edu/~upsych/Perspectives/2002/Ehrlich.pdf
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Happiness and Race
RELIGION, HEALTH, AND WELL-BEING AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS by Christopher G.
Ellison, Department of Sociology
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1088
http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/prba/perspectives/spring1998/cellison2.pdf
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Misc. and Magazine Articles.
Gross National Happiness: an introductory editorial.
http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/publications/gnh/GNH_Editorial.pdf
Happiness skills curriculum: not an article
http://www.ca.uky.edu/fcs/possibilities/
NEW BOOK EXAMINES THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS
http://nw08.american.edu/~hertz/fall2002/Graham%20talk.pdf
Can money buy happiness? UC Berkeley researchers find surprising answers
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/06/16_money.shtml
Partisan Social Happiness by Rafael Di Tella, Harvard Business School
and Robert MacCulloch, Princeton University
http://www.restud.org.uk/PDF/03_2004/Di_Tella_%20Macculloch.pdf
"Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run." – David Leonhardt
Article on Happiness
Choose To Be Happy
The only source of happiness – and unhappiness – comes from inside yourself.
Happiness is not something that comes to you. It is something you create now, today. Waiting for something to change in order to be happy is waiting to live your life. It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you. It is your attitude. When you adopt a positive attitude, life becomes a rewarding adventure instead of something to get through.
Do What You Love and Share With Others
If you wish to be happy, you have to be less involved in your own happiness and more involved in the happiness of other beings. "Make others happy and you become happy as a result. Involve yourself totally, throw yourself into what you are doing in life, and happiness will result. If you are compromising, i.e. doing something you hate as a means to an end so that good will result one fine day, STOP! Begin to do more of what you love NOW and let that grow until it fills your life. Then happiness will be yours, and you will be better able to bring happiness to the world."4
Knowing What You Want
Do you have a dream? Do you want something to change in your life? Not
knowing what you want can be a confusing, frustrating and miserable time.
Discover what it is that you want, what goals will make you happy.
Knowing Your Higher Self
Like everyone, you want joy, happiness and life purpose. "But the problem is, most people are looking in all the wrong places. Career. Money. Relationships. Power. Yet, esoteric teachings claim all answers lie within you. They describe a secret jewel inside within the heart. The treasure of infinite value. The divine essence called... The Higher Self."4
Secrets of Happiness
7 Golden Secrets to Knowing Your Higher Self
Discover simple effective strategies to break free forever from the deadlock holding you down.
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Knowing You Are Competent and Capable
Being inwardly happy (knowing you are competent and capable) automatically improves levels of quality and excellence in your work. Understand that inner happiness only comes about via Self esteem + Self respect + Personal Pride. Get these ingredients right and with careful written planning the rest will simply fall into place... More
The Importance of Values and Mission
The clearer you are about what you value and believe in, and what you stand for, the happier and more effective you will be. The values you choose for yourself, and the order of priority you place on your choices, will determine your approach to your life and work.
Breaking Free of Routine
Most people are living life on autopilot. Routine one of the most powerful obstacles you will ever encounter. Routine is so dangerous and so powerful that even the best of intentions can be knocked down for good because of it. Breaking free of routine is like bursting through a brick wall with nothing but opportunity on the other side. You'll see the world in an entirely new way and be excited about creating a happier, more successful future.5... More
The Cause of Unhappiness
"If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy. Again and again we need to let go." – Anthony de Mello
Living by Zen
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Buddhism about Happiness
"The first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful. We must also realize that these negative emotions are not only very bad and harmful to one personally, but are also harmful to society and the future of the whole world," teaches Dalai Lama.
Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. We tend to look for happiness outside ourselves, thinking that if we had the right house, the right car, the right job, and the right friends we would be truly happy. We spend almost all our time adjusting the external world, trying to make it conform to our wishes. All our life we have tried to surround ourselves with people and things that make us feel comfortable, secure, or stimulated, yet still we have not found pure and lasting happiness.
It is time we sought happiness from a different source. Happiness is a state
of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in
external conditions. If our mind is pure and peaceful we shall be happy,
regardless of our external circumstances, but if it is impure and unpeaceful we
can never be truly happy, no matter how hard we try to change our external
conditions. We could change our home or our partner countless times, but until
we change our restless, discontented mind we shall never find true happiness.
Cultural Intelligence & Modern Management
Discover synergies & Harness the power of diversity!
► Eastern vs. Western Philosophy
► Achievement Management
► Managing Cultural Differences
► Organizational Culture
► New Management Models from Different Cultures
► World Cultures, Philosophies and Religions
Case in Point The Dalai Lama's Approach
Dalai Lama believes that happiness can be achieved through compassion and training the mind.
From his perspective there is an inextricable link between one's own personal happiness and kindness and caring and compassion towards others. It's not only from the Dalai Lama's perspective – from his particular view of life and Buddhist philosophy – but also from the scientific standpoint that shows that happy people are much more likely to show compassion. What's remarkable is this amazing link between happiness and kindness towards others. Happier people are more likely to help the other person. But the Dalai Lama feels that it works the other way around as well. That the deliberate cultivation of kindness and compassion and caring and tolerance and forgiveness and these type of things will make one a happier person.
Dalai Lama's approach to achieving happiness begins with distinguishing between spirituality and religion. To have a spiritual dimension in your life, you should appreciate your potential as a human being and recognize the importance of inner transformation through a process of mental development.
The art of happiness has many components. It begins with developing an understanding of what are the truest sources of happiness and setting your priorities in life based on the cultivation of those sources. "It involves an inner discipline, a gradual process of rooting out destructive mental states and replacing them with positive, constructive states of mind, such as kindness, tolerance, and forgiveness."2 Balance is a key element of a happy life.
Case in Point Bertrand Russell about Happiness
"There is not law of nature guaranteeing that mankind should be happy. Everybody can see that this is true of our life here on earth, but by a curious twist our very sufferings in this life are made into an argument for a better life hereafter. We should not employ such an argument in any other connection. If you had bought ten dozen eggs from a man, and the first dozen were all rotten, you would not infer that the remaining nine dozen must be of surpassing excellence; yet that is the kind of reasoning that "the heart" encourages as a consolation for our sufferings here below."1
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