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Well-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology
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"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 ques...
"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. With contributions from leading authorities in psychology, social psychology, and neuro-science, this volume presents the definitive account of current scientific efforts to understand human pleasure and pain, contentment and despair."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xii, 593 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780871544247, 0871544245
- OCLC
- ocm40398038
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Objective Happiness / Daniel Kahmeman -- 2. Ecological Momentary Assessment / Arthur A. Stone, Saul S. Shiffman and Marten W. DeVries -- 3. Measurement Issues in Emotion Research / Randy J. Larsen and Barbara L. Fredrickson -- 4. Reports of Subjective Well-Being: Judgmental Processes and Their Methodological Implications / Norbert Schwarz and Fritz Strack -- 5. Wouldn't It Be Nice? Predicting Future Feelings / George Loewenstein and David Schkade -- 6. Preadaptation and the Puzzles and Properties of Pleasure / Paul Rozin -- 7. On the Pleasures of the Mind / Michael Kubovy -- 8. Questions Concerning Pain / Eric Eich, Ian A. Brodkin and John L. Reeves / [et al.] -- 9. The Mood System / William N. Morris -- 10. Emotions and Hedonic Experience / Nico H. Frijda -- 11. Personality and Subjective Well-Being / Ed Diener and Richard E. Lucas -- 12. Life Task Participation and Well-Being: The Importance of Taking Part in Daily Life / Nancy Cantor and Catherine A. Sanderson -- 13. Self-Regulation and Quality of Life: Emotional and Non-Emotional Life Experiences / E. Tory Higgins, Heidi Grant and James Shah -- 14. Disturbances in Emotion / Howard Berenbaum, Chitra Raghavan and Huynh-Nhu Le / [et al.] -- 15. Personal Control and Well-Being / Christopher Peterson -- 16. Hedonic Adaptation / Shane Frederick and George Loewenstein -- 17. Gender Differences in Well-Being / Susan Nolen-Hoeksema and Cheryl L. Rusting -- 18. Causes and Correlates of Happiness / Michael Argyle -- 19. Close Relationships and Quality of Life / David G. Myers -- 20. The Measurement of Welfare and Well-Being: The Leyden Approach / Bernard M. S. van Praag and Paul Frijters -- 22. National Differences in Subjective Well-Being / Ed Diener and Eunkook Mark Suh -- 23. The Physiology and Pathophysiology of Unhappiness / Robert M. Sapolsky -- 24. The Psychophysiology of Utility Appraisals / Tiffany A. Ito and John T. Cacioppo -- 25. Can Neurobiology Tell Us Anything About Human Feelings? / Joseph LeDoux and Jorge Armony -- 26. On the Neural Computation of Utility: Implications from Studies of Brain Stimulation Reward / Peter Shizgal -- 27. Pleasure, Pain, Desire, and Dread: Hidden Core Processes of Emotion / Kent C. Berridge -- 28. Neural Systems for Reinforcement and Inhibition of Behavior: Relevance to Eating, Addiction, and Depression / Bartley G. Hoebel, Pedro V. Rada and Gregory P. Mark / [et al.]