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Well-Being Foundations of Hedonic Psychology / Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suffering.
- Pleasure.
- Quality of life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (606 p.)
- Edition:
- First papercover edition.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The nature of well-being is one of the most enduring and elusive subjects of human inquiry.Well-Being draws upon the latest scientific research to transform our understanding of this ancient question.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part 1. How Can We Know Who Is Happy? Conceptual and Methodological Issues; 1. Objective Happiness; 2. Ecological Momentary Assessment; 3. Measurement Issues in Emotion Research; 4. Reports of Subjective Well-Being: Judgmental Processes and Their Methodological Implications; 5. Wouldn't It Be Nice? Predicting Future Feelings; Part 2. Feeling Good or Bad: Pleasures and Pains; Moods and Emotions; 6. Preadaptation and the Puzzles and Properties of Pleasure; 7. On the Pleasures of the Mind; 8. Questions Concerning Pain; 9. The Mood System
- 10. Emotions and the Hedonic ExperiencePart 3. Personality and Individual Differences; 11. Personality and Subjective Well-Being; 12. Life Task Participation and Well-Being: The Importance of Taking Part in Daily Life; 13. Self-Regulation and the Quality of Life: Emotional and Non-Emotional Life Experiences; 14. Disturbances in Emotion; 15. Personal Control and Well-Being; 16. Hedonic Adaptation; 17. Gender Differences in Well-Being; Part 4. The Social Context; 18. Causes and Correlates of Happiness; 19. Close Relationships and the Quality of Life; 20. Well-Being and the Workplace
- 21. The Measurement of Welfare and Well-Being: The Leyden Approach22. National Differences in Subjective Well-Being; Part 5. Biological Perspectives; 23. The Physiology and Pathophysiology of Unhappiness; 24. The Psychophysiology of Utility Approaches; 25. Can Neurobilogy Tell Us Anything About Human Feelings?; 26. On the Neural Computation of Utility: Implications from Studies of Brain Stimulation Reward; 27. Pleasure, Pain, Desire, and Dread: Hidden Core Process of Emotion; 28. Neural Systems for Reinforcement and Inhibition of Behavior: Relevance to Eating, Addiction, and Depression
- ContributorsIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-325-X
- OCLC:
- 835520356
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