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Chapter 2 — Why We Fail at Being Happy

Brickman, P., Coates, D., Janoff-Bulman, R. (1978). Lottery Winners and Accident Victims: Is Happiness Relative? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1978, Vol. 36, No. 8, p. 917-927

Riis, J, et al. (2005). Ignorance of Hedonic Adaptation to Hemodialysis: A Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 134, no. 1, 3-9.

Chapter 3 — Money & Luxury

Blanchflower, D., Oswald, A. (2004) Money, sex and happiness: an empirical study. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106(3), 393–415.

Brockmann, H., Delhey, J., Welzel, C., Hao, Y. (2008). The china puzzle: falling happiness in a rising economy. Journal of Happiness Studies.

Burr, A. Santo, J., Pushkar, D. (2009). Affective Well-Being in Retirement: the influence of values, money, and health across three years. Journal of Happiness Studies, Vol. 12(1), 17-40.

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Delamothe, T. (2005) Get happy—it’s good for you. British Medical Journal, 331:1489-1490.

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Kahneman D., Krueger A.B., Schkade D., et al. (2006). Would you be happier if you were richer? A focusing illusion. Science, 312, 1908-1910.

Kristof, K.M. (2005, January 14) Study: money can’t buy happiness, security either. Los Angeles Times, C1.

Myers, D. G. (2000). The funds, friends and faith of happy people. American Psychologist, 55, 56-67.

Nickerson, C., Schwarz, N., Diener, E., Kahneman, D. (2003) Zeroing in on the dark side of the American dream: a closer look at the negative consequences of the goal for financial success.Psychological Science, 14(6):531-6.

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Samuelson, Robert. (2007, July 11) Prosperity Outstrips Happiness. Real Clear Politics. Retrieved from http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/prosperity_outstrips_happiness.html

Chapter 4 — Sex & Romance

Blanchflower, D., Oswald, A. (2004) Money, sex and happiness: an empirical study. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106(3), 393–415.

Emanuele, E., et al. (2006). Raised plasma nerve growth factor levels associated with early-stage romantic love. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31(3), 288-294.

Farley, M., Bindel, J., Golding, J. (2009) Men who buy sex: who they buy and what they know. Report. San Francisco: Prostitution Research & Education.

Grello, C., Welsh, D., Harper, M., (2006) No strings attached: the nature of casual sex in college students, The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 255-267.

Kluger, J. (2008, January 17). The science of romance: why we love. Time. Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1704672,00.html

Lucas, Richard E., Andrew E. Clark, Yannis Georgellis, and Ed Diener. (2003) Reexamining adaptation and the set point model of happiness: reactions to changes in marital status. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 84.3: 527-39.

Roberts, S. (2007, July 1). The shelf life of bliss. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/fashion/weddings/01marriage.html

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Chapter 5 — Fame, Power, and Beauty

Anderson, C., & Berdahl, J. (2002). The experience of power: examining the effects of power on approach and inhibition tendencies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1362-1377.

Brim, O. G. (2009). Look at me!: the fame motive from childhood to death. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Carey, B. (2006, August 22). The fame motive. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/health/psychology/22fam.

Diener, E., Wolsic, B., & Fujita, F. (1995). Physical attractiveness and subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 120-129.

Dokoupil, T. (2010, July 19). Don't hate me because i'm beautiful: beauty can be its own glass ceiling. Newsweek. Retrieved from http://www.newsweek.com/content/newsweek/2010/07/19/don-t-hate-me-because-i-m-beautiful.html

Fiske, S. T. (1993). Controlling other people: the impact of power on stereotyping. American Psychologist, 48, 621-628.

Galinsky, A., Magee, J., Inesi, M., Gruenfeld, D. (2006). Power and perspectives not taken. Psychological Science, vol. 17 no. 12 1068-1074.

Gesquiere, L., Learn, N., Simao, M., Onyango, P., et al. (2011). Life at the top: rank and stress in wild male baboons. Science, 2011; 333 (6040): 357-360.

Johnson, S., Podratz, K., Dipboye, R., Gibbons, E. (2010). Physical attractiveness biases in ratings of employment suitability: tracking down the 'beauty is beastly' effect. The Journal of Social Psychology, 2010; 150 (3): 301.

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Lehrer, J. (2010, August 14). The power trip. The Wall Street Journal.

Meyer, B., et al. (2007) Happiness and despair on the catwalk: Need satisfaction, well-being, and personality adjustment among fashion models. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2(1): 2–17.

Niemiec, C., Ryan, R., Deci, E. (2009). The path taken: consequences of attaining intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations in post-college life. Journal of Research in Personality, Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 291-306.

Ohio State University (2008, February 15). When people feel powerful, they ignore new opinions, study finds. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 19, 2010, fromhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080214093135.htm

Reiss, N. (2007, August 9). Women who receive breast implants more likely to commit suicide. MentalHelp.net. Retrieved from http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=28706&cn=9

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Chapter 6 — The Amazing Power of Habit

Barnes, T., et al. (2005). Activity of striatal neurons reflects dynamic encoding and recoding of procedural memories. Nature, Vol. 437(20).

Begley, S. (2007). Train your mind, change your brain: how a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves. New York: Ballantine Books.

Dean, M. (2002). Effects of vow-making on adherence to a 12-week personal fitness program, self-efficacy, and theory of planned behavior constructs. Dissertation Abstracts International, 62(12-B): p. 5959.

DiSalvo, D. (2010, February 23). Why we return to bad habits. Scientific American. Retrieved from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-we-return-to-bad-habits

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Kalivas, P., Volkow, M. (2005). The neural basis of addiction: a pathology of motivation and choice. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162:1403-1413.

Kraus, S. (2004). How to replace bad habits with good ones: the science of habit management. Vista online, retrieved from http://www.friendsofvista.org/articles/article41236.html

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Neal, D., Wood,  W., Wu, M., Kurlander, D. (2011). The Pull of the Past: When Do Habits Persist Despite Conflict With Motives? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, DOI: 10.1177/0146167211419863.

Nordgren, L., van Harreveld, F., van der Pligt, J., (2009). The restraint bias: how the illusion of self-restraint promotes impulsive behavior. Psychological Science, vol. 20 no. 12 1523-1528.

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Schlund, M., et al. (2008). Experience-dependent plasticity: differential changes in activation associated with repeated reinforcement. Neuroscience, 155(1), 17-23.

Schlund, M., Hoehn-Saric, R., Cataldo, M. (2007). New knowledge derived from learned knowledge: Functional-anatomic correlates of stimulus equivalence. Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 87, 287-307.

Chapter 7 — Releasing the Past

Bryant, R., et al. (2008). Treatment of acute stress disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(6):659-667.

Dickerson, S., et al. (2004). Immunological Effects of Induced Shame and Guilt. Psychosomatic Medicine 66:124-131.

Dunham, W. (2008, June 2). Study finds reliving trauma can help ward off PTSD. Reuters. Retrieved from http://uk.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=UKN0227513620080602

Exline, J., Yali, A. and Sanderson, W. (2000). Guilt, discord, and alienation: The role of religious strain in depression and suicidality. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56: 1481–1496.

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University of Colorado at Boulder (2007, July 13). Emotional memories can be suppressed with practice, study says. ScienceDaily. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070712143304.htm

Warner, J. (2007, August 29). Are bad memories easier to remember? CBS News. Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/29/health/webmd/ma

Chapter 8 — Turning the Page

Enright, R. D. (2001). Forgiveness is a choice: a step-by-step process for resolving anger and restoring hope. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Gilbert, P. and Procter, S. (2006). Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self-criticism: overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 13: 353–379.

Harris, A.H, Luskin, F.M.., Benisovich, S.V., Standard, S., Bruning, J., Evans, S. and Thoresen, C.  (2006). Effects of a group forgiveness intervention on forgiveness, perceived stress and trait anger: A randomized trial. Journal of Clinical Psychology.  62(6) 715-733.

Henderson, M. (2009). No enemy to conquer: forgiveness in an unforgiving world. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.

Karremans J., Van Lange, P., Holland R. (2005). Forgiveness and its associations with prosocial thinking, feeling, and doing beyond the relationship with the offender. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 31 no. 10 1315-1326.

Lawler K., et al. (2003). A change of heart: cardiovascular correlates of forgiveness in response to interpersonal conflict. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Volume 26, Number 5, 373-393.

Lawler K, et al. (2005). The unique effects of forgiveness on health: an exploration of pathways. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Volume 28, Number 2, 157-167.

Luskin, F. (2002). Forgive for good: a proven prescription for health and happiness. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Luskin, F. M., Ginzburg, K & Thoresen, C. E. (2005). The effect of forgiveness training on psychosocial factors in college age adults. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. Special Issue: Altruism, intergroup apology and forgiveness: antidote for a divided world. 29(2) 163-184.

Mayo Clinic Staff. (2009, November 21). Forgiveness: Letting go of grudges and bitterness. Mayoclinic.com. Retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/forgiveness/MH00131

McCullough, M. E., Pargament, K. I., & Thoresen, C. E. (2000). Forgiveness: theory, research, and practice. New York: Guilford Press.

Noll, J. (2005). Forgiveness in people experiencing trauma. In E. Worthington (Ed.), Handbook of Forgiveness (pp. 363-372). New York: Routledge.

Noll, J. (2003). The process of forgiving childhood sexual abuse. Paper presented at the conference on Scientific Findings About Forgiveness, Atlanta, GA.

Peterson, K. (2003, October 23). Forgiveness could be balm for the body, too; The shackles of the past can harm your health, experts warn. USA Today. Retrieved fromhttp://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/429515171.htm

Tibbits, D., Ellis, G., Piramelli, C., Luskin, F., & Lukman, R. (2006). Hypertension reduction through forgiveness training. Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling. 60(1-2):27-34.

Worthington, E. L. (2005). Handbook of forgiveness. New York: Routledge.

Chapter 9 — Forgetting the Future

Holman, E., Silver, R. (2006). Future-oriented thinking and adjustment in a nationwide longitudinal study following the september 11th terrorist attacks. Motivation and Emotion, Volume 29, Number 4, 385-406.

Holman, E., Silver, R., Poulin, M., Andersen, J., Gil-Rivas, V., McIntosh, D. (2008). Terrorism, acute stress, and cardiovascular health: a 3-year national study following the September 11th attacks.Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(1):73-80.

Kubzansky, L., et al. (1997). Is worrying bad for your heart? a prospective study of worry and coronary heart disease in the normative aging study. Circulation, 95:818-824.

Loewenstein, G., O'Donoghue, T., Rabin, M. (2003). Projection Bias In Predicting Future Utility. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 4, Pages 1209-1248.

Quoidbach, J., Dunn, E. (2010). Personality neglect: the unforeseen impact of personal dispositions on emotional life. Psychological Science, vol. 21 no. 12 1783-1786.

Segerstrom, S., Tsao, J., Alden, L., Craske, M. (2000). Worry and rumination: repetitive thought as a concomitant and predictor of negative mood. Cognitive Therapy and Research, Volume 24, Number 6, 671-688.

Street, H., (1999). Depression and the pursuit of happiness. Clinical Psychologist, Volume 4, Issue 1, pages 18–25.

Wiese, B., Freund, A. (2005). Goal progress makes one happy, or does it? Longitudinal findings from the work domain. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Volume 78, Issue 2, pages 287–304.

Wilson, T., Gilbert, D. (2005). Affective forecasting: knowing what to want. Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Chapter 10 — Awareness: Pure and Simple

Boyd-Wilson, B., Walkey, F., McClure, J. (2002). Present and correct: we kid ourselves less when we live in the moment. Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 33, Issue 5, Pages 691-702.

Killingsworth, M., Gilbert, D. (2010). A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science, Vol. 330 no. 6006 p. 932.

Chapter 11 — The Never-Ending Stream

Ambady, N., & Gray, H. (2002). On being sad and mistaken: Mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(4), 947-961.

Anderson, D. (2004, April 21). Sports of The Times; It's About Finding a Zone, Not Zen, for Rodriguez. The New York Times. Retrieved fromhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/21/sports/baseball/21ANDE.html?ex=1397880000&en=b5f9a207e32f484a&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

Beck, A., & Rector, N. (2002). Delusions: a cognitive perspective. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 16(4), 455-468.

Bingel, U., et al. (2011). The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil. Science Translational Medicine. 3, 70ra14.

Cleaves, M. (2003, November). Mind the Gaps. SAGA.

Diener, E. (2009). Happiness is the frequency, not the intensity, of positive versus negative affect. Social Indicators Research Series, Volume 39, 213-231.

Eden, D. (1992). Leadership and expectations: Pygmalion effects and other self-fulfilling prophecies in organizations. The Leadership Quarterly, 3(4), 271-305.

Ferguson, Carissa Y., (2006). Older adults and depression : the relationships between distorted thinking, quality of life and depressive themes. Psychology Dissertations. Paper 46.http://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/psychology_dissertations/46

Fredrickson, B. (2009). Positivity. New York: Three Rivers Press.

Gasper, K., Clore, G. (2002). Attending to the big picture: mood and global versus local processing of visual information. Psychological Science, 13(1):34-40.

Gollub, R. Kong, J. (2011). For Placebo Effects in Medicine, Seeing Is Believing. Science Translational Medicine, Vol. 3, Issue 70, p. 70ps5.

Haukkala, A., et al. (2010). Hostility, anger control, and Anger Expression as predictors of cardiovascular disease. Psychosomatic Medicine, vol. 72 no. 6 556-562.

Helweg-Larsen, M., Sadeghian, P., & Webb, M. S. (2002). The Stigma of Being Pessimistically Biased. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 21(1), 92-107.

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Joormann, J., Levens, S., & Gotlib, I. (2011). Sticky Thoughts: Depression and Rumination Are Associated With Difficulties Manipulating Emotional Material in Working Memory. Psychological Science, 22(8), 979-983.

Kendall, P., Howard, B., & Hays, R. (1989). Self-referent speech and psychopathology: The balance of positive and negative thinking. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 13(6), 583-598.

Kubzansky, L, Davidson, K,  Rozanski, A. (2005).  The clinical impact of negative psychological states: expanding the spectrum of risk for coronary artery disease. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67:S10-S14.

Leitenberg, H., Yost, L., Carroll-Wilson, M. (1986). Negative cognitive errors in children: questionnaire development, normative data, and comparisons between children with and without self-reported symptoms of depression, low self-esteem, and evaluation anxiety. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 54- 4, 528-536.

McCormick, M. J. (2001). Self-Efficacy and Leadership Effectiveness: Applying Social Cognitive Theory to Leadership. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 8(1), 22-33.

Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., & Griffin, D. W. (1996). The self-fulfilling nature of positive illusions in romantic relationships: Love is not blind, but prescient. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(6), 1155-1180.

Peterson, C., Seligman, M., & Vaillant, G. (1988). Pessimistic explanatory style is a risk factor for physical illness: A thirty-five-year longitudinal study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55(1), 23-27.

Rietveld, S. (2002). Negative thoughts in adults with congenital heart disease. International Journal of Cardiology, 86(1), 19-26.

Schniering, C., & Rapee, R. (2004). The Relationship Between Automatic Thoughts and Negative Emotions in Children and Adolescents: A Test of the Cognitive Content-Specificity Hypothesis.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113(3), 464-470.

Schwartz, R. (1986). The internal dialogue: On the asymmetry between positive and negative coping thoughts. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 10(6), 591-605.

Schulman, P. (1999). Applying learned optimism to increase sales productivity. Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management. Vol. XIX, N. 1, 31-37.

Sutin, A., et al. (2010). Trait antagonism and the progression of arterial thickening. Hypertension, Vol. 56: 617-622.

Teasdale, J. (1983). Negative thinking in depression: Cause, effect, or reciprocal relationship? Advances in Behaviour Research and Therapy, 5(1), 3-25.

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Treadwell, K., & Kendall, P. (1996). Self-talk in youth with anxiety disorders: States of mind, content specificity, and treatment outcome. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(5), 941-950.

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Chapter 12 — Your Are Luckier Than You Think

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Allan, L., Siegel, S., & Hannah, S. (2007). The sad truth about depressive realism. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(3), 482-495.

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Brissette, I., Scheier, M., & Carver, C. (2002). The role of optimism in social network development, coping, and psychological adjustment during a life transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(1), 102-111.

Danner, D., Snowdon, D.  & Friesen, W. (2001). Positive emotions in early life and longevity: Findings from the nun study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(5), 804-813.

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Langer, E. (2009). Counter clockwise: mindful health and the power of possibility. New York: Ballantine Books.

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Lau, J., Molyneaux, E., Telman, M., Belli, S. (2011). The Plasticity of Adolescent Cognitions: Data from a Novel Cognitive Bias Modification Training Task. Child Psychiatry & Human Development.DOI: 10.1007/s10578-011-0244-3

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Scheier, M., Weintraub, J., Carver, C. (1986). Coping with stress: Divergent strategies of optimists and pessimists. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 51(6), 257-1264.

Segerstrom, S. (2001). Optimism, Goal Conflict, and Stressor-Related Immune Change. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 24(5): 441-467.

Segerstrom, S. (2005). Optimism and immunity: Do positive thoughts always lead to positive effects? Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 19(3): 195–200.

Segerstrom, S. C. (2006). Breaking murphy's law: how optimists get what they want from life-- and pessimists can too. New York: Guilford Press.

Seligman, M. (2006). Learned optimism: how to change your mind and your life. New York: Vintage Books.

Tindle, H., et al. (2009). Optimism, Cynical Hostility, and Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative. Circulation, 120: 656-662.

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Chapter 13 — Thanks for Everything

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Emmons, R., & McCullough, M. (2003). Counting blessings versus burdens: An experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(2), 377-389.

Emmons, R.  (2008). Thanks!: how practicing gratitude can make you happier. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Fredrickson, B., Tugade, M., Waugh, C., & Larkin, G. (2003). What good are positive emotions in crises?: A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 365-376.

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McCullough, M., Emmons, R., Tsang, J. (2002). The Grateful Disposition: A Conceptual and Empirical Topography. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 82, No. 1, 112–127.

McVeigh, K. (2009, August 12). Smile and count your blessings--it'll make you happier. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/12/uk-happiness-study/print

Toepfer, S. (2009). Letters of Gratitude: Improving Well-Being through Expressive Writing. Journal of Writing Research, 1(3), 181-198.

Toepfer, S., Cichy, K., Peters, P. (2011). Letters of Gratitude: Further Evidence for Author Benefits. Journal of Happiness Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s10902-011-9257-7

Chapter 14 — Planting the Seeds of Bliss

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Cohen, J., et al. (2006). Affirmation of Worth Boosts Scores of Black Children. Scientific American. Retrieved from: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=affirmation-of-worth-boos

Correll, J., Spencer, S., Zanna, M. (2004). An affirmed self and an open mind: Self-affirmation and sensitivity to argument strength Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(3) 350-356.

Creswell, D., et al. (2005). Affirmation of Personal Values Buffers Neuroendocrine and Psychological Stress Responses. Psychological Science, 16(11) 846-851.

Creswell, D, et al. (2007). Does Self-Affirmation, Cognitive Processing, or Discovery of Meaning Explain Cancer-Related Health Benefits of Expressive Writing? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(2), 238-250.

Kinnier, R., Hofsess, C., Pongratz, R., & Lambert, C. (2009). Attributions and affirmations for overcoming anxiety and depression. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 82(2), 153-169

Koole, S., van Knippenberg, A. (2007). Controlling your mind without ironic consequences: Self-affirmation eliminates rebound effects after thought suppression Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 43, Issue 4, 671-677.

Miyake, A., et al. (2010). Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science: A Classroom Study of Values Affirmation. Science, Vol. 330 no. 6008 pp. 1234-1237.

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Sherman, D., Nelson, L., & Steele, C. (2000). Do Messages about Health Risks Threaten the Self? Increasing the Acceptance of Threatening Health Messages Via Self-Affirmation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26(9), 1046-1058.

Sherman, D., et al. (2007). The Group as a Resource: Reducing Biased Attributions for Group Success and Failure via Group Affirmation. Perspectives in Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 33 no. 8 1100-1112.

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Chapter 15 — Environment, Vibration, and Inspiration

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Berkowitz, L. (1984). Some effects of thoughts on anti- and prosocial influences of media events: A cognitive-neoassociation analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 95(3), 410-427. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.95.3.410

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Taylor, A, Kuo, F. (2011). Could Exposure to Everyday Green Spaces Help Treat ADHD? Evidence from Children's Play Settings. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-0854.2011.01052.x

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Chapter 16 — People, Relationships, and Kindness

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Bruni, L., & Stanca, L. (2008). Watching alone: Relational goods, television and happiness. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 65(3-4), 506-528. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.12.005

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Camfield, L, Choudhury, K, and Devine, J.  (2006). RELATIONSHIPS, HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING: INSIGHTS FROM BANGLADESH. Economic and Social Research Council, WeD working paper, 14.

Christakis, N., & Fowler, J. (2011). Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives : How your friends' friends' friends affect everything you feel, think, and do. New York: Back Bay Books.

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Fredrickson, B., et al. (2008). Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(5), 1045-1062. doi: 10.1037/a0013262

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Gonzales, J., et al. (2002). Perceptions of Contagious Emotions and Contagious People. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 7(4), 185-191.

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Haney, C. (2003). Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and Supermax Confinement. Crime & Delinquency, 49(1), 124-156. doi: 10.1177/0011128702239239

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Holder, M., & Coleman, B. (2009). The Contribution of Social Relationships to Children’s Happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 10(3), 329-349. doi: 10.1007/s10902-007-9083-0

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Chapter 17 — Found in Sixty Seconds

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Geddes, D., Stickney, L. (2010). The trouble with sanctions: Organizational responses to deviant anger displays at work. Human Relations, 64 (2): 201 DOI: 10.1177/0018726710375482

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Gilbert, P., & Procter, S. (2006). Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self-criticism: Overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 13(6), 353-379. doi: 10.1002/cpp.507

Gilbert, P. (2009). The compassionate mind: A new approach to life's challenges. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

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Mongrain, M., Chin, J., Shapira, L. (2011). Practicing Compassion Increases Happiness and Self-Esteem, Journal of Happiness Studies, Vol. 12 (6), 963-981. Doi: 10.1007/s10902-010-9239-1

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Neff, K., & Vonk, R. (2009). Self-Compassion Versus Global Self-Esteem: Two Different Ways of Relating to Oneself. Journal of Personality, 77(1), 23-50. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00537.x

Pace, T., et al. (2009). Effect of compassion meditation on neuroendocrine, innate immune and behavioral responses to psychosocial stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, Vol. 34 (1), 87-98.

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Shamay-Tsoory, S. (2010). The Neural Bases for Empathy. The Neuroscientist, DOI: 10.1177/1073858410379268

Chapter 18 — Selfless Service

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Batson, C., & Shaw, L.  (1991). Evidence for Altruism: Toward a Pluralism of Prosocial Motives. Psychological Inquiry, 2(2), 107-122. doi: 10.1207/s15327965pli0202_1

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Flynn, F., Reagans, R., Amanatullah, E., & Ames, D. (2006). Helping one's way to the top: Self-monitors achieve status by helping others and knowing who helps whom. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(6), 1123-1137. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.6.1123

Grant, A., & Sonnentag, S. (2010). Doing good buffers against feeling bad: Prosocial impact compensates for negative task and self-evaluations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 111(1), 13-22. doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.07.003

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Weinstein, N., Ryan, R. (2010). When helping helps: Autonomous motivation for prosocial behavior and its influence on well-being for the helper and recipient. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 98(2), 222-244.

Zemore, S., Kaskutas, L. (2004). Helping, Spirituality and Alcoholics Anonymous in Recovery. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 65.

Zemore, S., Kaskutas, L., & Ammon, L. (2004). In 12-step groups, helping helps the helper. Addiction, 99(8), 1015-1023. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00782.x

Chapter 19 — Love Without Reason

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Roth, G., et al. (2009). The emotional and academic consequences of parental conditional regard: Comparing conditional positive regard, conditional negative regard, and autonomy support as parenting practices. Developmental Psychology, 45(4), 1119-1142. doi: 10.1037/a0015272

Sillick, T., Schutte, N. (2006). Emotional Intelligence and Self-Esteem Mediate Between Perceived Early Parental Love and Adult Happiness. E-Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 2, No 2.

Chapter 20 — Discovering Meaning, Finding Purpose

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Chapter 21 — Embracing Your Spiritual Self

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Argyle, M., and Hills, P. (2000). Religious experiences and their relations with happiness and personality. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 10, 157-172.

Balboni, T., et al. (2007). Religiousness and spiritual support among advanced cancer patients and associations with end-of-life treatment preferences and quality of life. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 25:555-560.

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Chida, Y., Steptoe, A., & Powell, L.  (2009). Religiosity/Spirituality and Mortality. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 78(2), 81-90. doi: 10.1159/000190791

Davis, T., et al. (2003). Meaning, Purpose, and Religiosity in At-Risk Youth: The Relationship between Anxiety and Spirituality. Journal of Psychology and Theology, Vol. 31.

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Easterling, L., Gamino L., Sewell K., Stirman L. (2000). Spiritual experience, church attendance, and bereavement, Journal of Pastoral Care, 54(3):263-75.

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Fryback, P., & Reinert, B. (1999). Spirituality and People With Potentially Fatal Diagnoses. Nursing Forum, 34(1), 13-22. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6198.1999.tb00231.x

Galea M, Ciarrocchi J., Piedmont R, & Wicks R. (2007). Child abuse, personality, and spirituality as predictors of happiness in Maltese college students. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 18: 141-154.

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Koenig, H. (2001). Religion and Medicine IV: Religion, Physical Health, and Clinical Implications. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine Issue, Volume31, Number 3, 321-336.

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Miller, W., & Thoresen, C. (2003). Spirituality, religion, and health: An emerging research field. American Psychologist, 58(1), 24-35. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.58.1.24

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Wachholtz, A., & Pargament, K. (2008). Migraines and meditation: Does spirituality matter? Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 31(4), 351-366. doi: 10.1007/s10865-008-9159-2

Walsh J, Ciarrocchi J, Piedmont R, & Haskins D. (2007). Spiritual transcendence and religious practices in recovery from pathological gambling: Reducing pain or enhancing quality of life? Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 18: 155-175

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Chapter 22 — The Nature of Bliss

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Chapter 23 — Discovering the Bliss Within

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Chapter 24 — The Power of Bliss

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Chapter 25 — The Presence of Bliss

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Chapter 26 — Freedom in Bliss

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Kawabata H., Zeki, S. (2008). The Neural Correlates of Desire. PLoS ONE, 3(8): e3027. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003027

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Tamminga, C. A. (2006). Pathological Gambling: Focusing on the Addiction, Not the Activity. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163(2), 180-181. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.163.2.180

Volkow, N. D., & Li, T. (2004). Science and Society: Drug addiction: The neurobiology of behaviour gone awry. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5(12), 963-970. doi: 10.1038/nrn1539

Chapter 27 — Planetary Consequences

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