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The Legacy of a Pioneering Happiness Researcher: Michael W. Fordyce (December 14, 1944–January 24, 2011)

verfasst von: Harris L. Friedman

Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies | Ausgabe 2/2013

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Michael (Mike) W. Fordyce is recognized as a pioneer in the area of happiness research (e.g., Seligman et al. 2005 ). He was also a professor of psychology at a state college, a psychologist in private practice, and author of popular materials on personal happiness.¹ I first met Mike at Edison State College (then Edison Community College) in 1975, when I joined the faculty. He had started teaching there the previous year, so we were both new faculty members and bonded as colleagues, especially as our offices were adjoining. …

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Many of his unpublished and proprietary works are archived and available for free at http://web.archive.org/web/20110106055558/http://gethappy.net/.

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Fordyce, M. W. (1972). Happiness, its daily variation and its relation to values. Dissertation Abstracts International, 33, 1266B. Doctoral dissertation, United States International University.

Fordyce, M. W. (1974). Human happiness: The findings of psychological research (unpublished manuscript).

Fordyce, M. W. (1977). Development of a program to increase personal happiness. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 24(6), 511–521.CrossRef

Fordyce, M. W. (1978). The psychology of happiness: The book version of the fourteen fundamentals (unpublished manuscript).

Fordyce, M. W. (1983). A program to increase happiness: Further studies. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 30(4), 483–498.CrossRef

Fordyce, M. W. (1985). A program to increase personal happiness: More studies (unpublished manuscript).

Fordyce, M. W. (1986). The psychap inventory: A multi-scale test to measure happiness and its concomitants. Social Indicators Research, 18(1), 1–33.CrossRef

Fordyce, M. W. (1988). A review of research on the happiness measures: A sixty second index of happiness and mental health. Social Indicators Research, 20, 355–381.CrossRef

Friedman, H. (1983). The self-expansiveness level form: A conceptualization and measurement of a transpersonal construct. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 15, 37–50.

Friedman, H. (2008). Humanistic and positive psychology: The methodological and epistemological divide. The Humanistic Psychologist, 36, 113–126.CrossRef

Friedman, H., & Hartelius, G. (Eds.). (in press). The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of transpersonal psychology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Seligman, M., Steen, T., Park, N., & Peterson, C. (2005). Positive psychology progress: Empirical validation of interventions. American Psychologist, 60(5), 410–421. Retrieved August 3, 2007, from EBSCO database.

Titel: The Legacy of a Pioneering Happiness Researcher: Michael W. Fordyce (December 14, 1944–January 24, 2011)
verfasst von: Harris L. Friedman
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2013
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies / Ausgabe 2/2013
Print ISSN: 1389-4978
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-013-9419-x

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