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 Experience
Part 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 Approach
22. 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
Contributors
Index