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7
. Daniel Kahneman, “The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory,” TED Talk video, February 2010, http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html.

8
. Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead, and Jonathan Rowe, “If the GDP Is Up, Why Is America Down?”
Atlantic
, October 1995, http://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/ecbig/gdp.htm.

9
. Jon Hall, head of National Human Development Reports Unit, United Nations; interview with author, July 17, 2013.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Ibid.

12
. http://wwbp.org/about.html.

13
. H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Margaret L. Kern, Lukasz Dziurzynski, Megha Agrawal, Gregory J. Park, Shrinidhi K. Lakshmikanth, Sneha Jha, Martin E. P. Seligman, and Lyle Ungar, “Characterizing Geographic Variation in Well-Being Using Tweets,” paper presented at Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Boston, 2013, http://wwbp.org/papers/icwsm2013_cnty-wb.pdf.

14
. Jon Hall interview.

15
. Timothy W. Ryback, “The UN Happiness Project,”
New York Times
, March 28, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/opinion/the-un-happiness-project.html?pagewanted=all.

16
. H. E. Mr. Jigmi Y. Thinley, “Address by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on Wellbeing and Happiness” (speech, UN Headquarters, New York, NY, April 2, 2012), http://www.cabinet.gov.bt/?p=737.

17
. Mark Anielski,
The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth
(Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2007), xvii.

18
. Mark Anielski, president and CEO of Anielski Management, Edmonton, Alberta; interview with author, July 22, 2013.

19
. Ibid.

20
. Jon Hall interview with author.

21
. Enrico Giovannini, minister of labor and social policies, Italy; interview with author, August 1, 2013.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Ibid.

24
. John Tierney, “How Happy Are You? A Census Wants to Know,”
New York Times
, April 30, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/us/01happiness.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&gwh=9FE440DFF7941255517B3A62AF94AB9F.

25
. Daniel Hadley, director of Somerstat, interview with author, June 7, 2013.

26
. Ibid.

Chapter Nineteen

1
. Robin Barooah and Alexandra Carmichael, “Get Your Mood On: Part One,” Quantifed Self website, December 9, 2012, http://quantifiedself.com/2012/12/get-your-mood-on-part-1/.

2
. http://measuredme.com/about-measured-me/.

3
. http://www.slideshare.net/modernmetrix/hacking-happiness-16684885.

4
. Konstantin Augemberg, statistician, interview with author, May 9, 2013.

5
. Della van Heyst, cofounder of the Billion People Project, interview with author, May 22, 2013.

6
. Carrie van Heyst, cofounder of the Billion People Project, interview with author, May 22, 2013.

7
. Della van Heyst interview.

8
. http://www.upworthy.com/about.

9
. http://www.upworthy.com/internet-calls-fat-girl-fat-and-her-response-is-perfect.

10
. Arianna Huffington, “Taking the Third Metric Abroad: Redefining Success Goes Global,”
Chicago Tribune
, August 1, 2013, http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-201308010930—tms—ahuffcoltq—m-a20130801-20130801,0,2126559.column.

INDEX

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ABI Research,
50

About.com Guide to Podcasting,
xxxv

Accelerating Returns, Law of,
78
–79

Accelerometers,
4
,
214

Accountability-based influence (ABI),
xxi
,
13
–20,
128
,
203
,
204

in augmented reality,
97

of quantified self,
61
,
62

in reputation economy,
20
–22

shared value and increase in,
130
,
133
–34

Achievement,
7
,
163

“Achievement Architecture,”
58

acrossair,
103

Affectiva,
11

Airbnb,
21
,
22
,
31

Alcoholics Anonymous,
57

Algorithms,
6
,
75
,
96
,
207
,
221

emotion tracking,
37
,
39

machine-learning,
xxviii

personalization of,
xi
,
52
,
76
–78

predictive,
xxv
–xxvi,
76
,
183

virtual currency,
xiii
,
115

AllJoin,
72

Alm, Amanda,
174

Altarum Institute,
122

Altruism,
xxx
,
48
,
168
,
181
–95

contagiousness of,
193
–94

currency of,
194
–95

good intentions and,
187
–88

of heroes,
189
–92

on Internet,
64

opportunity for,
188
–89

in positive psychology,
154
,
162

Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute,
186

Alzheimer’s disease,
35
–36

Amazon,
77
,
119

Amsterdam

International Documentary Film Festival in,
79
,
80

Waag Society Happiness Lab in,
165

Analytics: The Real-World Use of Big Data
(IBM),
90

Android phones,
xxvi

Anielski, Mark,
220
–22

Anschluss,
116

Anthon Berg chocolate company,
200
–2

The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination
(Gardner),
8

Apple,
xxvi
,
71
,
115
,
119
–20

See also
iPhone

APX Labs,
108
–9

Arab Spring,
174

Aristotle,
xxx
,
157

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
36

Arizona State University,
65

ARhrrrr,
103

Art of Doing Less,
58
–59

Artificial intelligence (AI),
xxviii
,
47
,
77
,
81
,
82
,
98
,
201
,
206
–7

Asperger’s syndrome,
35

Association for Psychological Science,
139
,
173

Atlantic
magazine,
86
,
153

AT&T,
xxxv

Business,
70

Augemberg, Konstantin,
228
–30

Augmented reality (AR),
xiii
,
xix
–xx,
xxx
,
4
,
87
,
95
–110,
153
,
198

apps utilizing,
36

desktop-based applications of,
101
–2

fictional version of,
95
–101

and Internet of Things,
69

future and financials of,
104
–9

mobile,
102
–4 (
see also
Google Glass)

virtual currency and,
121
,
125

“Augmenting Social Reality in the Workplace” (Waber),
178
–79

Australia,
223

Bureau of Statistics,
216

Austria,
115
–16

Authentic Happiness,
164