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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