Thursday, July 26, 2012

Happiness


Have you ever wondered if there was a scientific method of measuring happiness? Wonder no more! In the Netherlands at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dr. Ruut Veenhoven is the emeritus professor of “social conditions for human happiness.” He is also the director of the World Database of Happiness. This database can be found at the web address of http://www1.eur.nl/fsw/happiness/






According to the website, “The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life. It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work.” On the website, “happiness is defined as the degree to which an individual judges the overall quality of his/her life-as-a-whole favorably.”

This website is very scientific, but it is also fascinating that there are individuals that are calculating people’s overall happiness. Check it out!



While looking over the scientific evidence, here are some of the library’s nonfiction books on finding happiness. Enjoy!

150.198 GENTRY
 Happiness for Dummies                        

                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                           152.42 CHUTTST
                                                                                                                                   Happiness


 




153 EDELMAN
The Happiness Pursuit: What Neuroscience 
Can Teach Us About the Good Life



                                                                                                                                





                                                                                                                                158 GILBERT
                                                                                                             Stumbling on Happiness

 



158.1 DANZIGER
The Nine Rooms of Happiness: Loving Yourself, Finding 
Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life’s Little Imperfections



                                                                                                                                     
 
                                                                          

                                                                                                                                                                                                              158.1 PRATT
                                                                                               
                                             Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to 
                                    Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness





 


170 BOK
Exploring Happiness: From 
Aristotle to Brain Science



                                                                                                                                        

 


                                                                                                                                


                                                                         170     HECHT
                                                 The Happiness Myth: Why What We 
                                                Think is Right is Wrong: A History of 
                                                   What Really Makes Us Happy





 




             613 WEIL
Spontaneous Happiness



                                                                                                                                       
 





                                                                               910.4 WEINER
                                              The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s 
                                  Search for the Happiest Places in the World  



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