Fall 2012 Happiness Reading List

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Reference List

• Argyle, Michael. 1999. Causes and Correlates of Happiness. Well-Being: the foundations of hedonic psychology, editors Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwartz, 353-73. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Aristotle. Nichomachean Ethics, Books 1. [Internet Clasics Archive]. 19 August 2010.
• Bok, Derek. 2010. The Politics of Happiness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton UP.(selected chapters)
• Brooks, David. 17 January 2011. Social Animal. The New Yorker.
• Bryant, Fred and Joseph Veroff. 2007. Savouring: a new model of positive experience. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum(selected chapters).
• Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. 1997. Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life. Basic Books.
• de Botton, Alain. 2004. Status Anxiety. New York: Vintage International.(selected chapters)
• Diener, Ed and Robert Biswas-Diener. 2008. Happiness: Unlocking the mysteries of psychological wealth . Blackwell Publishing.
• Diener, Ed Suh Mark. 1999. National Differences in Subjective Weil-Being. in Will-Being: the foundations of hedonic psychology, eds Daniel Kahneman and Ed Schwarz Norbert Diener. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Emmons, Robert A. 2008. Gratitude, Subjective Well-Being, and the Brain. in The Science of Subjective Well-Being Michael Eid and Randy J. Larsen, 469-93. New York: Guilford Press.
• Epictetus. Enchiridion. [Internet Classics Archive]. 19 August 2010.
• Epicurus. 1964. Letter to Menoeceus. Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings, 53-60. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• ________. 1964. Principal Doctrines. Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings, 60-6. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Farhi, Donna. 2004. Chapter 6, "Cleaning Up Our Act: The Four Brahmavihara". Bringing Yoga to Life Donna Farhi, 56-68. New York: Harper Books.
• Gilbert, Daniel. 2006. Stumbling on Happiness. New York: Alfred Knopf.
• Haidt, Jonathan. 2006. The Happiness Hypothesis: finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. New York: Basic Books. (selected chapters)
• Irvine, William. 2009. Chapter 4: Negative Visualization. A Guide to the Good Life: The ancient art of stoic joy., William Irvine. 65-85. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• ________. 2009. Chapter 5: The Dichotomy of Control. A Guide to the Good Life: The ancient art of stoic joy., William Irvine. 65-85. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Lelord, Francois. 2010. Hector and the Search of Happiness. New York: Penguin. (selected chapter)
• McMahon, Darrin M. 2006. Happiness: A History. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
• Miller, Barbara Stoler. 1998. Yoga: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali. New York: Bantam Books.
• Pali Canon. 2006. The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving. in Early Buddhist Discourses, editor and translator John J. Holder. Indianapolis: Hackett.
• Schmimmack, Ulrich. 2008. The Structure of Subjective Well-Being. in The Science of Subjective Well-Being Michael Eid and Randy J. Larsen, 97-124. New York: Guilford Press.
• Siderits, Mark. 2007. Chapter Two: Early Buddhism: Basic Teaching. in Buddhism as Philosophy Mark Siderits. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing.
• Watkins, Philip. 2004. Gratitude and Subjective Well-being. The Psychology of Gratitude Robert A McCullough Michael E. Emmons, 167-95Oxford University Press.