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This book tests the critical potential of happiness research to evaluate contemporary high-performance societies. These societies, defined as affluent capitalist societies, emphasize competition and success both institutionally and culturally. Growi
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Hilke Brockmann Jan Delhey Editors
Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization Is More Always Better?
Happiness Studies Book Series
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/10117
Happiness Studies Book Series Series Editor: Antonella Delle Fave University of Milano, Milan, Italy
Editorial Board: ANDREW CLARK Paris School of Economics, Paris France JAN DELHEY Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany CAROL RYFF University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
JUKKA VARELIUS University of Turku, Turku, Finland ULRICH WIESMANN Greifswald University, Greifswald Germany
Aims and Scope Exploring features and implications for personal and social empowerment from a substantially interdisciplinary point of view. Like the Journal of Happiness Studies, the series explores happiness through both objective and subjective indicators. Subjective aspects comprise cognitive evaluations (like life satisfaction), positive affect and emotions, development of meanings, competences, and goals. Key issues includes appraisal of life, work conditions, mental and physical health, developmental trajectories throughout the life span, socio-economic conditions, cultural aspects, and their impact on individual and social wellbeing.
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Editors Hilke Brockmann Jan Delhey School of Humanities and Social Sciences Jacobs University Bremen Bremen Germany
ISSN 2213-7513 ISBN 978-94-007-6608-2 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6609-9
ISSN 2213-7521 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-6609-9 (eBook)
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