Hacking Happiness (37 page)

5
. Ibid.

Chapter Twelve

1
. Andrew Benett and Ann O’Reilly,
Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), ix.

2
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOnkv76rNL4.

3
. Association of Psychological Science, “Consumerism and Its Antisocial Effects Can Be Turned On—or Off,” press release, April 9, 2012, http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/consumerism-and-itsantisocial-effects-can-be-turned-onor-off.html.

4
. Ibid.

5
. John C. Havens, “The Impending Social Consequences of Augmented Reality,”
Mashable
, February 8, 2013, http://mashable.com/2013/02/08/augmented-reality-future/.

6
. “Savoring,”
Positive Psychology News Daily Blog
, http://positivepsychologynews.com/search-by/image-maps/positive-emotions/savoring.

Chapter Thirteen

1
. Adam Smith,
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
(London, 1759).

2
. Avner Offer, “Between the Gift and the Market: The Economy of Regard,”
Economic History Review
L, 3 (1997): 450–476, http://economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk/10489/1/gift3.pdf.

3
. “Adam Smith,”
Wikipedia
, accessed 08:24, July 26, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith.

4
. Avner Offer,
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 77.

5
. Avner Offer, interview with author, March 15, 2013.

6
. Barbara Fredrickson, “Your Phone vs. Your Heart,”
New York Times
, March 23, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/your-phone-vs-your-heart.html.

7
. Robin Dunbar, “How Many Friends Does One Person Need?” University of Oxford, February 4, 2010, http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/books/how_many_friends.html.

8
. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, “The Pursuit of Happiness: What the Founders Meant—And Didn’t,”
Atlantic
, June 20, 2011, http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/the-pursuit-of-happiness-what-the-founders-meant-and-didnt/240708/.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, interview with author, June 17, 2013.

Chapter Fourteen

1
. http://www.happify.com.

2
. http://www.ippanetwork.org/faq/.

3
. Martin Seligman, “The New Era of Positive Psychology,” TED Talk video, February 2004, http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html.

4
. “Positive Psychology,”
Wikipedia
, accessed 08:40, July 26, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology.

5
. Martin E. P. Seligman, “What Is Well-Being?”
Authentic Happiness Blog
, April 2011, http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/newsletter.aspx?id=1533.

6
. http://youtu.be/vGc9pWan-FY?t=1m6s.

7
. Martin Seligman,
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being
(New York: Free Press, 2011), 20.

8
. Jenn Lim, CEO, Delivering Happiness at Work, interview with author, May 13, 2013.

9
. Barb Sanford, “The High Cost of Disengaged Employees,”
Gallup Business Journal
, April 15, 2002, http://businessjournal.gallup.com/content/247/the-high-cost-of-disengaged-employees.aspx.

10
. Marise Schot, head of the Happiness Lab at the Waag Society in Amsterdam, interview with author, April 29, 2013.

11
. Jenn Lim, interview with author, May 13, 2013.

12
. Kristine Maudal, partner at Brainwells in Oslo, Norway; interview with author, June 2, 2013.

13
. Dacher Keltner, “The Compassionate Instinct,” Greater Good website, spring 2004, http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_compassionate_instinct.

14
. Ibid.

15
. https://vimeo.com/51140422.

16
. Eiji Han Shimizu, filmmaker, publisher, and workshop producer, interview with author, July 27, 2013.

17
. John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang, “Comparing the Happiness Effects of Real and On-line Friends,” NBER Working Paper No. 18690, National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2013, http://nber.org/papers/w18690.

Chapter Fifteen

1
. Viktor E. Frankl,
Man’s Search for Meaning
(Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), xiv–xv.

2
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBR8c6qvHMc.

3
. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
(New York: Harper & Row, 1990), 2.

4
. Csikszentmihalyi,
Flow, 3
.

5
. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “Finding Flow,”
Psychology Today
, July 1, 1997, http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199707/finding-flow.

6
. https://vimeo.com/62071609.

7
. Brenda Milner and Carol Tavris, “Inside the Psychologist’s Studio,” from the 24th Association for Psychological Science Convention, Chicago, filmed May 26, 2012, https://vimeo.com/50697025.

8
. Steve Mann, Jason Nolan, and Barry Wellman, “Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments,”
Surveillance & Society
1, no. 3 (2003): 331–55, http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1%283%29/sousveillance.pdf.

9
. Oskar Kalmaru, cofounder of Memoto, interview with author, February 26, 2013.

10
. Niclas Johansson, “Lifeloggers: Meet the Reporter, Amanda Alm,”
Memoto Blog
, May 23, 2013, http://blog.memoto.com/2013/05/amanda-alm-the-reporter-of-lifeloggers/.

11
. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn,
Making Sense of Sensors: How New Technologies Can Change Patient Care
, California HealthCare Association, February 2013, http://www.chcf.org/~/media/MEDIA%20LIBRARY%20Files/PDF/M/PDF%20MakingSenseSensors.pd.

12
. Csikszentmihalyi, “Finding Flow.”

13
. Ibid.

14
. Ben Waber, “Augmenting Social Reality in the Workplace,”
MIT Technology Review
, May 15, 2013, http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514371/augmenting-social-reality-in-the-workplace/.

15
. Lee Drutman, “Get Politically Engaged, Get Happy?”
Pacific Standard
, February 14, 2010, http://www.psmag.com/politics/get-politically-engaged-get-happy-8307/.

16
. Malte Klar and Tim Kasser, “Some Benefits of Being an Activist: Measuring Activism and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being,”
Political Psychology
30, no. 5 (October 2009): 755–77, http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/20066774/509269522/name/Activism.pdf.

17
. Sara Armstrong, “The Key to Learning: A Place for Meaningful Academic Exploration,”
Edutopia
, April 11, 2002, http://www.edutopia.org/key-to-learning-place-for-meaningful-academic-exploration.

18
. “Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Motivating People to Learn,”
Edutopia
, April 11, 2002, http://www.edutopia.org/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-motivating-people-learn.

Chapter Sixteen

1
. Steven Pinker,
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
(New York: Viking, 2002), 259.

2
. Dacher Keltner, “The Compassionate Instinct,” Greater Good website, Spring 2004, http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_compassionate_instinct.

3
. Sonja Lyubomirsky,
The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
(New York: Penguin Press, 2008), 22.

4
. Lyuborsky,
The How of Happiness, 128.

5
. http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-stories/1506-gas-station.

6
. John Helliwell, professor emeritus, Vancouver School of Economics, interview with author, April 19, 2013.

7
. Dana Klisanin, psychologist, interview with author, June 12, 2013.

8
. Rob Stein, “Happiness Can Spread Among People Like a Contagion, Study Indicates,”
Washington Post
, December 5, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/04/AR2008120403537_pf.html.

9
. http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a2338.

10
. Stein, “Happiness Can Spread.”

11
. Nataly Kogan, cofounder of Happier, interview with author, March 22, 2013.

Chapter Seventeen

1
. Bruce Sterling, “State of the World 2009,” topic 343, remarks at Inkwell: Authors and Artists Conference. http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/343/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html.

2
. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economics.asp.

3
. John C. Havens, “The Value of a Happiness Economy,”
Mashable
, June 13, 2012, http://mashable.com/2012/06/13/happiness-economy/.

Chapter Eighteen

1
. Robert F. Kennedy, “Remarks at the University of Kansas” (speech, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, March 18, 1968), http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/RFK-Speeches/Remarks-of-Robert-F-Kennedy-at-the-University-of-Kansas-March-18-1968.aspx.

2
. Ibid.

3
. “Gross National Happiness,”
Wikipedia
, accessed 09:43, July 26, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness.

4
. A. H. Maslow, “A Theory of Human Motivation,”
Psychological Review
, 50 (1943): 370–96, http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm.

5
. Daniel Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger, David A. Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, and Arthur A. Stone, “A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method,”
Science
306, no. 5702 (December 3, 2004): 1776–80, http://www.sfu.ca/~kathleea/phil100/lectures/100_08.Last.pdf.

6
. N. Lathia, K. Rachuri, C. Mascolo, and P. Rentfrow, “Contextual Dissonance: Design Bias in Sensor-Based Experience Sampling Methods,” paper presented at ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, September 8–12, 2013, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~nkl25/publications/papers/lathia_ubicomp13.pdf.