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Introduction: The Dynamics of Happiness and the Dynamics of Happiness Research

verfasst von: Hilke Brockmann, Jan Delhey

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Happiness research is mushrooming. National rankings of the happiest populations and insights into which factors boost happiness are in demand as much from a growing international scientific community as from policy makers and the general public. This is probably no accident in post-modern times. The concept is down-to-earth, innocent, and non-ideological, but promising and in everyone’s vocabulary rut. Happiness may refer to either short-term emotional states, or long-term cognitive evaluations (Ryff 1989; Veenhoven 1996a, b; Kahneman 2000). Yet, it always rests on the individual capacity to distinguish between good and bad environmental stimuli, and it triggers behavioral responses. …

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Titel: Introduction: The Dynamics of Happiness and the Dynamics of Happiness Research
verfasst von: Hilke Brockmann
Jan Delhey
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2010
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 1/2010
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-009-9561-3

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