Well-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology

XII, 593 S.

Ill., graph. Darst.

26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 28 Beitr.

Literaturangaben

Part I How can we know who is happy? Conceptual and methodological issues -- Objective happiness / Daniel Kahneman -- Ecological momentary assessment / Arthur A. Stone, Sual S. Shiffman, Marten W. DeVries -- Measurement issues in emotion research / Randy J. Larsen and Barbara L. Fredrickson -- Reports of subjective well-being : judgmental processes and their methodological implications / Norbert Schwarz and Fritz Strack -- Wouldn't it be nice? Predicting future feelings / George Loewenstein and David Schkade -- Part II Feeling good or bad : pleasures and pains; moods and emotions -- Preadaptation and the puzzles and properties of pleasure / Paul Rozin -- On the pleasures of the mind / Michael Kubovy -- Questions concerning pain / Eric Eich, Ian A. Brodkin, John L. Reeves, and Anuradha F. Chawla -- The mood system / William N. Morris -- Emotions and hedonic experience / Nico H. Frijda -- Part III Personality and individual differences -- Personality and subjective well-being / Ed Diener and Richard E. Lucas -- Life task participation and well-being : the importance of taking part in daily life / Nancy Cantor and Catherine A. Sanderson -- Self-regulation and quality of life : emotional and non-emotional life experiences / E. Tory Higgins, Heidi Grant, and James Shah -- Disturbances in emotion / Howard Berenbaum, Chitra Raghavan, Huyn -- Part IV The social context -- Causes and correlates of happiness / Michael Argyle -- Close relationships and quality of life / David G. Myers -- Well-being and the workplace / Peter Warr -- The measurement of welfare and well-being : the Leyden approach / Bernard M.S. van Praag and Paul Frijters -- National differences in subjective well-being / Ed Diener and Eunkook Mark Suh -- Part V Biological perspectives -- The physiology and pathophysiology of unhappiness / Robert M. Sapolsky -- The psychophysiology of utility appraisals / Tiffany A. Ito and John T. Cacioppo -- Can neurobiology tell us anything about human feelings? / Joseph LeDoux and Jorge Armony -- On the neural computation of utility : implications from studies of brain stimulation reward / Peter Shizgal -- Pleasure, pain, desire, and dread : hidden core processes of emotion / Kent C. Berridge -- Neural systems for reinforcement and inhibition of behavior : relevance to eating, addiction, and depression / Bartley G. Hoebel, Pedro V. Rada, Gregory P. Mark, and Emmanuel N. Pothos.

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