Revisiting the Sustainable Happiness Model and Pie Chart: Can Happiness Be Successfully Pursued?

The Promise of Sustainable Happiness

From ancient history to recent times, philosophers, writers, self-help gurus, and now scientists have taken up the challenge of how to foster greater happiness. This chapter discusses why some people are happier than others, focusing on the distinctive ways that happy and unhappy individuals construe themselves and others, respond to social comparisons, make decisions, and self-reflect. We sugg...

Emotion The Pursuit of Happiness Can Be Lonely

Achieving Sustainable Happiness 1 Achieving Sustainable New Happiness: Prospects, Practices, and Prescriptions

BRIEF REPORT The Pursuit of Happiness Can Be Lonely

Few things seem more natural and functional than wanting to be happy. We suggest that, counter to this intuition, valuing happiness may have some surprising negative consequences. Specifically, because striving for personal gains can damage connections with others and because happiness is usually defined in terms of personal positive feelings (a personal gain) in western contexts, striving for ...

Can money buy happiness?

Income was negatively associated with the mood states of confusion and tense in a sample of 406 community residents, but controls for age, sex, and education eliminated these associations.