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Well-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology
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Details
- Creator
- Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xii, 593 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781610443258, 161044325X, 161044325X, 0871544245, 9780871544247
- OCLC
- ocn835520356
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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