References and Links |
Below are just a few relevant links to podcasts, videos, publications, journals, magazines, and other websites for more information about happiness, wellbeing, and life satisfaction. Some useful philosophical podcasts about what is meant by happiness come from philosophy bites: Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle's view of happiness
Thomas Hurka talks about pleasure and utility
A six part British series called Philosophy- A Guide to Happiness might be fun to watch. Below is the second segment about Epicurus and his view on friends, freedom, and the analyzed life.
Psychologists lecture on TED about the their work on happiness: Dan Gilbert gives a good lecture and another about predicting happiness
Nancy Etcoff talks about her field and some of her work:
Econtalk, a very good economics podcast, here voices a classical capitalist view that challenges some of what happiness research may mean or seek to achieve:
If you have access, there are some good reviews in the journal: Two particular review articles that may be of interest are: On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-being Personality, Culture, and Subjective Well-being: Emotional and Cognitive Evaluations of Life There is also a journal dedicted to happiness research: If you want something more informal, the magazine New Scientist has some good peices. Psychology Today also has many topical articles. The magazine the Atlantic has an article about a significant longitudinal study that has been going on for many years Of course wikipedia has an entry on happiness. There are also some other websites about happiness that may be useful: |