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Found 7 from your keywords: subject="Happiness"
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Translating happiness :a cross-cultural lexicon of well-being
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Lomas, Tim,

How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being - from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch - can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262344630
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1 online resource (xv, 223 pages)
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The high price of materialism
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Kasser, Tim.

A study of how materialism and consumerism undermine our quality of life. In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to impr…

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9780262276764
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1 online resource (xvi, 149 pages) : illustrations.
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Happiness :
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Frey, Bruno S.,

In this text a leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the qualification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze. Emphasizing empirical evidence rather than theoretical conjectures, Frey substantiates the need for happiness research.

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1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations.
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Measuring Happiness: The Economics of Well-Being
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Weimann, Joachim,Knabe, Andreas,Sch?ob, Ronnie,

An investigation of the happiness-prosperity connection and whether economists can measure well-being.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262323710
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1 online resource (x, 212 pages)
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Culture and Subjective Well-Being
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Suh, Eunkook M.DIENER, Edward

The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB).

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9780262316194
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1 online resource (viii, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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Happiness
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Lomas, Tim,

"A short, reader-friendly treatment of happiness from a leading figure in positive psychology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262370837
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1 online resource.
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Happiness :a revolution in economics
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Frey, Bruno S.,Stutzer, Alois,Benz, Matthias,Meier, StephanLuechinger, Simon,Benesch, Christine,

In this text a leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the qualification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze. Emphasizing empirical evidence rather than theoretical conjectures, Frey substantiates the need for happiness research.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262273213
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1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) :illustrations.
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