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Social Policy Implications of the New Happiness Research ... The dramatic, counter-intuitive results of happiness research have received a fair amount of media attention. The leading researchers, such as Ed Diener, David Myers, David Lykken, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Norbert Schwarz, and Daniel Kahneman,
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www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/86.html
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Inventory of empirical findings on happiness that prepares for research synthesis ... The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life. It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work.
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worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
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Happiness economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Happiness economics is the study of a country's quality of life by combining economists' and psychologists' techniques. It relies on more expansive notions of utility than does conventional economics...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_economics
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Happiness Strategies ... The many and varied benefits of happiness, the current lack of theory and research about happy people, and the protective and healing health powers of well-being, all make the study of happiness an important task.
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www.happinessresearch.com/
www.happinessresearch.com/
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My own journey into happiness research began as I entered my graduate studies in Psychology. My academic history in diverse fields like philosophy, the humanities, art, history, and religion had led me to consider the larger questions of human existence.
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www.gethappy.net/v104.htm
www.gethappy.net/v104.htm
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Forbes magazine has just published several short pieces on happiness research. Nothing especially rigorous, but a pleasant enough read: * Money Doesn't Make People Happy by Tim Harford But marriage, sex, socializing and even middle age do. ... Forbes magazine has just published several short pieces on happiness research.
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neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2006/02/forbes_on_...
neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2006/02/forbes_on_happi.html
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Arnold has curtly dismissed happiness research: ... Look at happiness research from another angle: it is shown we are unhappy when we blame others for our mis-fortune. Now that we know what the research shows, why would we do something that we know makes us unhappy?
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econlog.econlib.org/archives/2006/03/happiness_resea_1....
econlog.econlib.org/archives/2006/03/happiness_resea_1.html
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For unmarried individuals, raising children has little or no positive effect on their happiness. These findings1 by Dr. Luis Angeles from the University of Glasgow in the UK have just been published online in Springer’s Journal of Happiness Studies. ... Applied Research in Quality of Life...
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www.springer.com/social+sciences/quality+of+life+resear...
www.springer.com/social+sciences/quality+of+life+research/journal/10902
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Past research has shown that opting for shared experiences such as vacations and theatre tickets will lead to more long-term happiness than will buying material goods. However, new research to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Consumer Research shows that sometimes experiences can backfire.
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211111000.htm
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