Well-being: the foundations of hedonic psychology

Part I How can we know who is happy? Conceptual and methodological issues

Objective happiness / Daniel Kahneman

Ecological momentary assessment / Arthur A. Stone, Sual S. Shiffman, Marten W. DeVries

Measurement issues in emotion research / Randy J. Larsen and Barbara L. Fredrickson

Reports of subjective well-being : judgmental processes and their methodological implications / Norbert Schwarz and Fritz Strack

Wouldn't it be nice? Predicting future feelings / George Loewenstein and David Schkade

Part II Feeling good or bad : pleasures and pains; moods and emotions

Preadaptation and the puzzles and properties of pleasure / Paul Rozin

On the pleasures of the mind / Michael Kubovy

Questions concerning pain / Eric Eich, Ian A. Brodkin, John L. Reeves, and Anuradha F. Chawla

The mood system / William N. Morris

Emotions and hedonic experience / Nico H. Frijda

Part III Personality and individual differences

Personality and subjective well-being / Ed Diener and Richard E. Lucas

Life task participation and well-being : the importance of taking part in daily life / Nancy Cantor and Catherine A. Sanderson

Self-regulation and quality of life : emotional and non-emotional life experiences / E. Tory Higgins, Heidi Grant, and James Shah

Disturbances in emotion / Howard Berenbaum, Chitra Raghavan, Huyn

Part IV The social context

Causes and correlates of happiness / Michael Argyle

Close relationships and quality of life / David G. Myers

Well-being and the workplace / Peter Warr

The measurement of welfare and well-being : the Leyden approach / Bernard M.S. van Praag and Paul Frijters

National differences in subjective well-being / Ed Diener and Eunkook Mark Suh

Part V Biological perspectives

The physiology and pathophysiology of unhappiness / Robert M. Sapolsky

The psychophysiology of utility appraisals / Tiffany A. Ito and John T. Cacioppo

Can neurobiology tell us anything about human feelings? / Joseph LeDoux and Jorge Armony

On the neural computation of utility : implications from studies of brain stimulation reward / Peter Shizgal

Pleasure, pain, desire, and dread : hidden core processes of emotion / Kent C. Berridge

Neural systems for reinforcement and inhibition of behavior : relevance to eating, addiction, and depression / Bartley G. Hoebel, Pedro V. Rada, Gregory P. Mark, and Emmanuel N. Pothos.