Study guide with articlesummaries for Science of Happiness at the University of Utrecht

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  • Summaries with 28 prescribed articles for Science of Happiness 2023/2024

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  • Revising the adaptation theory of well-being
  • Strengths and weaknesses of self-report measures of subjective well-being
  • Is the study of happiness a worthy scientific pursuit?
  • Non-traditional measures of subjective well-being and their validity
  • Concepts and components of well-being
  • What are the possibility, desirability, and justifiability of happiness?
  • Three revolutions in the global history of happiness
  • What is well-being?
  • What is eudaimonia?
  • The relationship between cognitive outlooks and well-being
  • Affective forecasting and impact bias explained
  • Factors that might influence high happiness
  • The dark side of happiness
  • Increasing happiness
  • The Sustainable Happiness Model (SHM)
  • Using Positive Psychological Interventions (PPIs) to increase subjective well-being
  • Impact of the size and scope of government on human well-being
  • Well-being in metrics and policy
  • Subjective well-being and national satisfaction
  • Can and should happiness be a policy goal?
  • Including subjective well-being measures in government policies
  • The relationship between materialism and well-being
  • Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action
  • How pro-environmental behavior can both thwart and foster well-being
  • The relationship between social bonds and well-being
  • The relationship between social capital, prosocial behavior, and subjective well-being
  • Marriage, parenthood and well-being
  • The relationship between close relationships and health

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Articlesummary with Beyond the hedonic treadmill: Revising the adaptation theory of well-being by Diener et al.
Articlesummary with Reevaluating the strengths and weaknesses of self-report measures of subjective well-being by Lucas
Articlesummary with Is the study of happiness a worthy scientific pursuit? by Norrish & Vella-Brodrick
Articlesummary with Non-traditional measures of subjective well-being and their validity: A review by Scollon
Articlesummary with Well-being concepts and components by Tov
Articlesummary with Scientific answers to the timeless philosophical question of happiness by Kesebir
Articlesummary with From the Paleolithic to the present: Three revolutions in the global history of happiness by McMahon
Articlesummary with Well-being in Normative ethics by Kagan
Articlesummary with Eudaimonia in the contemporary science of subjective well-being by Heintzelman
Articlesummary with Cognitive outlooks and well-being by Margolis & Lyubomirsky
Articlesummary with Affective forecasting: Knowing what to want by Wilson & Gilbert
Articlesummary with Very happy people by Diener & Seligman
Articlesummary with A dark side of happiness? How, when, and why happiness is not always good by Gruber et al.
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Articlesummary with Revisiting the sustainably happiness model and pie chart: Can happiness be successfully pursued? by Sheldon & Lyumbomirsky
Articlesummary with Cultivating subjective well-being through positive psychological interventions by Stone & Parks
Articlesummary with Assessing the impact of the size and scope of government on human well-being by Flavin et al.
Articlesummary with Well-being in metrics and policy by Graham et al.
Articlesummary with Subjective well-being and national satisfaction: Findings from a worldwide survey by Morrison et al.
Articlesummary with Can and should happiness be a policy goal? Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences by Oishi & Diener
Articlesummary with Accounts of psychological and emotional well-being for policy purposes by Sim & Diener
Articlesummary with Materialism and living well by Kasser
Articlesummary with Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: A review by Brosch
Articlesummary with Explaining the paradox: How pro-environmental behavior can both thwart and foster well-being by Venhoeven et al.
Articlesummary with Heathy social bonds: A necessary condition for well-being by Gable & Bromberg
Articlesummary with Social capital and prosocial behavior as sources of well-being by Helliwell et al.
Articlesummary with Married... with children: The science of well-being in marriage and family life by Nelson-Coffey
Articlesummary with Interpersonal mechanisms linking close relationships to health by Pietromonaco & Collins
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