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Bibliographic Subjects » VIEWS ON HAPPINESS: » Views on happiness in public opinion » Beliefs about happiness » Myths about happiness

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VIEWS ON HAPPINESS: Views on happiness in public opinion Beliefs about happiness Myths about happiness
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Myths about happiness, misunderstanding, folk tale
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List of Publications on this Subject

Authors Title / Source Year Cameron, P. Social Stereotypes: 3 Faces of Happiness.
Psychology Today, 1974, Vol. 8, 63 - 64 1974 Cargan, L.; Melko, M. Singles: Myths and Realities.
Sage Publications, 1982, Beverly Hills, USA 1982 Kearl, M.C. An Inquiry into the Positive Personal and Social Effects of Old Age, Stereotypes among the Elderly.
International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1981-1982, Vol. 14, 227 - 290 1982 Mancini, J.A.; Cavigan, M.A.; Franklin, A.; Quinn, W.H. Social Network Interaction among Older Adults: Implications for Life Satisfaction.
Human Relations, 1980, Vol. 33, 543 - 554 1980 Myers, D.G. The Pursuit of Happiness. Who is Happy and Why?
William Morrow, 1992, New York, USA 1992 Sigelman, L. Is Ignorance Bliss? A Reconsideration of the Folk Wisdom.
Human Relations, 1981, Vol. 34, 965 - 974 1981 Martin, P. Making Happy People. The Nature of Happiness and its Origins in Childhood.
Harper Collins Publisher, 2005, London, UK 2005 Gilbert, D.T. Stumbling on Happiness.
Vintage Books, 2005, New York, USA 2005 Hagerty, M.R. Was Life Better in the ' Good Old Days'? Intertemporal, Judgments of Life Satisfaction.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2003, Vol. 4, 115 - 139 2003 Diener, E. Myths in the Science of Happiness, and Directions of Future Research.
Eid, M.; Larsen, R.J.; Eds.: ''The Science of Subjective Well-Being'', The Guilford Press, 2008, New York, USA, 493 - 514. 2008 Powdthavee, N And you think Having Children make you Happy? A Case of Focusing Illusion.
Discussion papers in Economics no 2008/31, 2008, University of York, UK 2008 Schkade, D.A.; Kahneman, D. Does Living in California make People Happy? A Focusing Illusion in Judgements of Life Satisfaction.
Psychological Science, 1998, Vol. 9, 340 - 346 1998 Biswas-Diener, R. 5 Myths of Positive Psychology.
Psychology Today, April 2013, 1 2013 Bock, S. Staying Positive: Women’s Illness Narratives and the Stigmatized Vernacular.
Health, Culture and Society, 2013, Vol. 5, 150 - 166 2013 Veenhoven, R. Classic Wisdom About Ways of Happiness: How does it apply Today.
Giorgino, V.; Ed.: "SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and QOL research" , Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1 - 12 2014 Lucas, R.E.; Diener, E.; Dyrenforth, P.S. Four Myths About Subjective Well-Being.
Social and Personality Psychology Compass 2008, Vol. 5, 2001 - 2015 2008 Davies, A.D. The Happiness Industry - How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being.
The Happiness Industry - How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being, 2015, 1 - 303 , Brooklyn, NY, USA 2015 Lyubomirsky, S. The Myths of Happiness.
The Penquin Press, 2013, New York, USA 2013 Fisher, C. Why do lay People Believe that Satisfaction and Performance are correlated? Possible Sources of a commonsense theory.
Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2003, Vol. 24, 753 - 777 2003 Schnabel, P. Feiten en Gevoel (Facts and Feeling)
Sturen op Geluk, Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, 2012, The Hague, Netherlands, chapter 2 2012