Top Research Papers on Happiness

Recently the researchers attend to positive psychology instead of attention to negative problems as disorders and disturbances. Happiness and happy person has spicily characteristics and benefits that the person how is depressed or unhappy hasn't it. In this study tried to more know happiness, the benefits and the role of happiness in other domain like as work and etc.

Happiness is a multi-dimensional concept. Directly speaking, happiness is the important joy of life. Essentially speaking, happiness is the psychological experience of the satisfaction of great demands and desire of life and the realization of great goals of life, and its ultimate goal is to get the psychological experiences of the certain perfection of existence and development

Chapter 3 argues that the conception of the self (ātman) that Sanskrit logicians attribute to humans corresponds to how they give emotional meaning to place. First, it examines their argument—that emotions are particular to humans and do not occur in divine beings—in relation to arguments in Bengali Vaishnavism, where emotion is understood to be that which allows one to connect to the divine. Second, it examines a number of temple inscriptions that illustrate how emotions are used by those who participate in Bengali Vaishnavism. Then, it contrasts these inscriptions with colophons from the tex...

This cross-cultural study explored the perceptions of people about what can make a person happy. A total of 215 students answered one of three open-ended questions: from Canada, French-speakers (n = 57) and English-speakers (n = 54), from El Salvador (n = 42), and from the United States (n = 62). Content and correspondence analyses revealed that factors contributing to happiness were perceived similarly across the four groups. The most stated factors overall were the importance of family relationships, of pursuing and reaching valued goals, and of a positive attitude toward self. On the other ...

Happiness, job competence, and emotional competence, from an integrative perspective, are incorporated with the characteristics of the collaborator and the factors of the organization. They are emphasizing the classification of job skills and the opportunity to include emotional skills as a specific section. At the same time, it reflects on the components of happiness proposed by Seligman and the interest in relating it to job satisfaction based on the preceding scientific research. Finally, the usefulness of emotional competence is analyzed as a specific section within the general labor compe...

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This chapter presents happiness from the perspective of a public good, that is, of collective character understood as the basis for the constitution of public policies in tourism. Thus, the intimate relationship between tourism, happiness, and tourism development is recognized. The reflection undertaken on public policies in tourism is based on the analysis of the capacities to generate happiness in society and on the offer of a proposition that state interventions, whether of distributive, redistributive, regulatory, or constitutional nature, under pressure from collective needs, must attend ...

Pascal argues that the fundamental driver of human activity in general is the search for happiness. Philosophy (in particular Stoicism) cannot achieve this goal. Pascal’s views are compared and contrasted with those of Aristotle: like Aristotle, Pascal thinks that all people seek happiness; but, unlike Aristotle, he conceives happiness in terms of pleasure and does not identify it with the supreme good; the supreme good is God, and happiness would consist in being united with him. Our relentless search for a happiness that experience tells us is unattainable is a mark of the residual sense of ...

Orwell had mixed views on happiness. He cast it as the fundamental goal of socialism, but he also denied that socialism had anything to do with happiness. This chapter studies the grounds for such ambivalence. The misgivings stemmed in part from the basic psychology of happiness—in Orwell’s mind, at least, it often appeared to be too subjective, too ephemeral, and too contingent to serve as a viable public end. He believed, moreover, that its pursuit was self-undermining: the best means of eroding happiness was to make it the be-all and end-all of everything. Orwell also worried that happiness...

The opposite of happiness is not unhappiness but disindividuation. Bersani’s reading of Freud and his identification of sexuality at odds with the happiness of liberal society also provides a nascent account of neoliberalism’s capture of queer sex.

A Christian is called to live in a consumer oriented world that is governed more by greed and pleasure than principle. Since the end of World War 1 civilized individuals have wanted the return of the “golden twenties” because any trust in God has culturally been replaced with a sense that no one can rely on anyone except themselves. This is a search for happiness that leads nowhere. Christians must be awake and alert to avoid being sidetracked (one word for sin means to fall from the path) into carnal thinking and carnal interests. This article was written in the hopes that believers will take...

In 1974, the King of the small Himalayan nation of Bhutan announced to the world that his country would no longer pursue rapid economic growth like all other nations. Instead, Bhutan would measure its success in terms of gross national happiness. However, the king did not explain how he was going to measure national happiness. Anyway, the initiative was welcomed, and today we see how the concept of happiness has moved from the spheres of poetry and philosophy to the sphere of real politics and economics. The flow of various studies on happiness is increasing. The project “World Happiness Datab...

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Given the choice between winning the lottery and being left permanently disabled by injury, everyone would take the money. Yet a year after either of these events, people apparently return to their previous levels of happiness.1 Such are the complexities of the state described by Aristotle as “the best, the finest, the most pleasurable thing of all.” 2 As everyone since Midas knows, acquiring riches is a poor long term bet in the happiness stakes. A recent review concluded that “money can buy you happiness, but not much, and above a modest threshold, more money does not mean more happiness....

The NHS should shift the focus to assisted or facilitated choice, providing experts and tools to help narrow down the possibilities to a manageable number and to offer support to those least able to negotiate their way around the service.

The cabin stood before us shuttered and silent like a big puzzle box we were about to open. There was work to do. Nick opened the front door and we went in and found the old good smell of firewood and burned coffee and the dry smell of the books.

The Dalai Lama has said: “the purpose of life is to seek happiness.” First, a biblical view of happiness is presented. Second, a brief description of the philosophical stances: Hedonism, Eudaimonia, Utilitarianism and Tibetan Buddhism. Third, the Positve Psychology of Martin Seligman, where happiness is seen as an outcome of the morally good life. In contrast, the efforts of C. S. Lewis to discover general moral laws are displayed. Similarly those of Wallace, Havel and Hill to discover a limited values consensus. The Seligman project is noble, but somewhat hasty and superficial in its current ...

Accounts of happiness in the philosophical literature see it as either a judgment of satisfaction with one’s life or as a balance of positive over negative feelings or emotional states. There are sound objections to both types of account, although each captures part of what happiness is. Seeing it as an emotion allows us to incorporate both features of the accounts thought to be incompatible. Emotions are analyzed as multi-component states including judgments, feelings, physical symptoms, and behavioral dispositions. It is shown that prototypical happiness contains all these components, and ea...

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Satisfaction offers happiness. If a satisfied person runs after more then he becomes unhappy. Similarly, if an unhappy person stops hankering he becomes happy again. The idea is very simple. But practically it is quite difficult to implement. The person experiences violent emotion. Thus unhappiness is a disease. And dissatisfaction is a dangerous disease. Only a man can make him happy. There is none who can rescue him from such man made problem i.e., self-created crisis