Beyond that, the effect of money on happiness depends on how happiness is defined.
Alexander Kjerulf, an international author and speaker on happiness at work, agrees.
His forthcoming book, Stumbling on Happiness, will be published in May 2006.
In a follow up study of children currently being sponsored by Compassion, he found they scored better than their peers on happiness and hopefulness.
Research by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, shows that reversible, keep-your-options-open decisions reliably lead to lower levels of satisfaction than irreversible ones.
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In recent years, some economists have focused on happiness and other measures of subjective well-being that aren't fully captured by traditional gauges of wealth and income.
Because career success depends so heavily on happiness and attitude, you need to treat these factors differently, and not just as two more parts of an overall risk-mitigation model.
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This has been done, but it is unsatisfactory because in a cross-country comparison many other things vary along with political institutions: it is impossible to isolate the effect of political arrangements on happiness.
Retired Lieutenant General Jan Huly is among those who score high on the happiness scale.
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The Straussian judgment on American happiness has a sharply limited appeal as a partisan political message.
However, can this focus on tracking happiness actually undermine us, especially in our career or business successes?
It still is that, arguably, but new positioning has it more focused on delivering happiness for vacationers in their terms.
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He and his son also have little time for those who say we should focus on "happiness" instead of economic growth.
Being a contributer to the marriage, not just financially but with their actions will have a significant effect on the happiness of both spouses.
Maybe we should enquire the ramifications of this structure of inequality on the happiness of married people, and of all people for that matter.
That's what the lesbian couple on "Happiness Hill" are trying to do.
Ternovskiy sucked down a glass of fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice and pattered on about happiness and the intersection between virtual reality and real reality.
That physical display of how you're feeling - for example, if you're feeling happy, the physical display of happiness on your face and, perhaps even in your gestures, increases the feeling of happiness, just as the physical display of sadness increases your feelings of sadness.
In addition, we see career advancement programs have a big impact on overall employee happiness.
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For the Science study, participants were asked to rate their happiness on a commonly used three-point scale.
Again, the federal government merely exists to secure our freedoms, after which we as individuals are supposed to find individual happiness on our own.
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So my sense of seasonal happiness on Christmas Eve intensifies as the King's College Choir and congregation reach the final verse of Once in Royal David's City.
ResultSource booked us for various speaking events in many of our cities during our 2010 book tour, where we went to 23 cities over 3.5 months on the Delivering Happiness bus.
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Human beings spend a lot of time trying to figure out what will make them happy, but not nearly enough time trying to hang on to the happiness they already have.
Regardless of income, the people who spent money on others reported an increase in personal happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not.
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My favorite slide at the WorldBlu 2011 conference on workplace democracy: happiness buckets.
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The show recreates moments of happiness based on the memories told on the map.
Shawn Achor at HBR writes this week on the connection between happiness and success.
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