Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change
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Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change
The pursuit of happiness is an important goal for many people. However, surprisingly little scientific research has focused on the question of how happiness can be increased and then sustained, probably because of pessimism engendered by the concepts of genetic determinism and hedonic adaptation. Nevertheless, emerging sources of optimism exist regarding the possibility of permanent increases i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of General Psychology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1089-2680,1939-1552
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.9.2.111