ความสุข

ความสุขมักแสดงออกผ่านรอยยิ้ม

ความสุข หรือ สุข พจนานุกรมฉบับราชบัณฑิตยสถาน พ.ศ. 2542 นิยามว่า "เกิดจากความร้อน"

หนังสืออ่านเพิ่ม

Ludovico Antonio Muratori, 1749

• Boehm, J K. & S. Lyubomirsky, Journal of Career Assessment. Vol 16(1), Feb 2008, 101–116.
• C. Robert Cloninger, Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being, Oxford, 2004.
• McMahon, Darrin M., Happiness: A History, Atlantic Monthly Press, November 28, 2005. ISBN 0-87113-886-7
• McMahon, Darrin M., The History of Happiness: 400 B.C. – A.D. 1780, Daedalus journal, Spring 2004.
• Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness, Knopf, 2006.
• Carol Graham (2010), Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Hills P., Argyle M. (2002). "The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire: a compact scale for the measurement of psychological well-being. Personality and Individual Differences". Psychological Wellbeing. 33: 1073–1082.
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• Barbara Ann Kipfer, 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, Workman, 1990/2007, ISBN 978-0-7611-4721-3.
• Stefan Klein, The Science of Happiness, Marlowe, 2006, ISBN 1-56924-328-X.
• Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons From A New Science, Penguin, 2005, ISBN 978-0-14-101690-0.
• David G. Myers, Ph. D., The Pursuit of Happiness: Who is Happy—and Why, William Morrow and Co., 1992, ISBN 0-688-10550-5.
• Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph. D., Authentic Happiness, Free Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7432-2298-9.
• Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Analysis of Happiness, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1976
• Journal of happiness studies: an interdisciplinary forum on subjective well-being, International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), quarterly since 2000, also online
• Carol Graham "Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires", OUP Oxford, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-954905-4 (favorable review in Science 6 August 2010)
• W. Doyle Gentry "Happiness for dummies", 2008
• Jimmy DeMesa, M.D. "BeHappy!: Your Guide to the Happiest Possible Life", 2006
• Eric G. Wilson "Against happiness", 2008
• Sonja Lyubomirsky "The how of happiness", 2007
• Niek Persoon "Happiness doesn't just happen", 2006
• Richard Layard "Happiness", 2005
• Desmond Morris "The nature of happiness", 2004
• Gregg Easterbrook "The progress paradox – how life gets better while people feel worse", 2003
• Ben Renshaw "The secrets of happiness", 2003
• Martin E.P. Seligman "Authentic happiness", 2002
• Alexandra Stoddard "Choosing happiness – keys to a joyful life", 2002
• Robert Holden "Happiness now!", 1998
• Joop Hartog & Hessel Oosterbeek "Health, wealth and happiness", 1997
• Ruut Veenhoven "Bibliography of happiness – world database of happiness : 2472 studies on subjective appreciation of life", 1993
• Neil Kaufman "Happiness is a choice", 1991
• Michael W. Eysenck "Happiness – facts and myths", 1990
• Lynne McFall "Happiness", 1989
• Michael Argyle "The psychology of happiness", 1987
• Ruut Veenhoven "Conditions of happiness", 1984
• Elizabeth Telfer "Happiness : an examination of a hedonistic and a eudaemonistic concept of happiness and of the relations between them...", 1980
• Norman M. Bradburn "The structure of psychological well-being", 1969
• Bertrand Russell "The conquest of happiness", orig. 1930 (many reprints)
• James Mackaye "Economy of happiness", 1906
• Sara Ahmed, "The Promise of Happiness", 2010

แหล่งข้อมูลอื่น

• History of Happiness – concise survey of influential theories
• The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry "Pleasure" – ancient and modern philosophers' and neuroscientists' approaches to happiness
• The World Database of Happiness – a register of scientific research on the subjective appreciation of life.
• Oxford Happiness Questionnaire – Online psychological test to measure your happiness.
• Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness – Video of a short lecture by Srikumar Rao on how to be happy
• Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? – Video of a short lecture by Dan Gilbert our how our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.