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Journal of Happiness Studies
Personality and Individual Differences
Policy Quarterly
International interest in including a broad range of measures of well-being in national accounts ... more International interest in including a broad range of measures of well-being in national accounts and in using well-being research to inform policy making was greatly stimulated by the Stiglitz report (Stigliz, Sen and Fitoussi, 2008). The essential message of this report was that if we want wellbeing to feature as one of our country’s outcomes it has to be measured and monitored appropriately to test its responsiveness to public policy interventions. In order to bring these issues to a New Zealand audience, editors from the International Journal of Wellbeing organised the Wellbeing and Public Policy conference held at Victoria University of Wellington over the three days of 13–15 June 2012.
Journal of Psychology in Africa
Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health, 2000
Journal of Social Research Policy, Dec 1, 2013
The Philosophers' Magazine, 2011
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2013
danweijers.com, 2006
School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations. Final Version Sub... more School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations. Final Version Submitted on 20 October 2006. PHIL 409: Research. For: Dr Nick Agar. Genetic Screening for Happiness: Depraved Design or Moral Mandatory? Dan Turton. 300040887. ...
The Philosophers' Magazine, 2011
According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, unless global collective ... more According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, unless global collective action on climate change can be achieved, the major threats posed by a rapidly changing climate are likely to have catastrophic effects for all life on Earth (IPCC 2007). Despite the fact all major governments have acknowledged the causal role of anthropogenic emissions in producing rapid global warming, 1 little action has yet been taken to reduce such emissions.
Ethical Perspectives, 2012
Real-world Economics Review, 2009
In their recent article The Unhappy Thing about Happiness Economics http://www. paecon. net/PAERe... more In their recent article The Unhappy Thing about Happiness Economics http://www. paecon. net/PAEReview/issue46/JohnsOrmerod46. pdf Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod make the strong claim that ���time series data on happiness tells us nothing���. 2 Their argument is based on three main points: that statistically significant correlations between time series happiness data and other important socioeconomic indicators cannot be found, that the nature of happiness scales makes them insensitive and difficult to compare with most other ...
The Philosophers' Magazine, 2011
Social Indicators Research, 2015
ABSTRACT This paper reports two studies that sought to examine whether religiosity moderates the ... more ABSTRACT This paper reports two studies that sought to examine whether religiosity moderates the relationship between income inequality and life satisfaction. Practice-based and belief-based aspects of religion were both included in the analyses. Using multi-level analyses on 85 nations across the world (N = 217,591) and 27 European nations (N = 49,763), we found evidence in support of our hypothesis that religiosity mitigates the negative influence of income inequality on life satisfaction. Our results also indicate that it is religious belief, not religious practice, that functions as a buffer in the relationship between income inequality and life satisfaction. The importance and implications of the results are discussed.
This symposium is the result of our efforts to collect and present what we know about the creatio... more This symposium is the result of our efforts to collect and present what we know about the creation and distribution of happiness. Our aim is to help shift the focus of wellbeing research from the 'I'to the 'we'by celebrating people and places, ideas and institutions, that have made and can make the world a happier place. We call them 'Felicitators'–producers of happiness.
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW). The IJW is an ope... more Welcome to the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW). The IJW is an open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly research on wellbeing (broadly construed). The purpose of the journal is to promote thought and discussion on this vital topic. The launch of the IJW is a direct response to increasing demand both for research on wellbeing and for publishing opportunities for wellbeing researchers.
Journal of Happiness Studies
Personality and Individual Differences
Policy Quarterly
International interest in including a broad range of measures of well-being in national accounts ... more International interest in including a broad range of measures of well-being in national accounts and in using well-being research to inform policy making was greatly stimulated by the Stiglitz report (Stigliz, Sen and Fitoussi, 2008). The essential message of this report was that if we want wellbeing to feature as one of our country’s outcomes it has to be measured and monitored appropriately to test its responsiveness to public policy interventions. In order to bring these issues to a New Zealand audience, editors from the International Journal of Wellbeing organised the Wellbeing and Public Policy conference held at Victoria University of Wellington over the three days of 13–15 June 2012.
Journal of Psychology in Africa
Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health, 2000
Journal of Social Research Policy, Dec 1, 2013
The Philosophers' Magazine, 2011
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2013
danweijers.com, 2006
School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations. Final Version Sub... more School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations. Final Version Submitted on 20 October 2006. PHIL 409: Research. For: Dr Nick Agar. Genetic Screening for Happiness: Depraved Design or Moral Mandatory? Dan Turton. 300040887. ...
The Philosophers' Magazine, 2011
According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, unless global collective ... more According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, unless global collective action on climate change can be achieved, the major threats posed by a rapidly changing climate are likely to have catastrophic effects for all life on Earth (IPCC 2007). Despite the fact all major governments have acknowledged the causal role of anthropogenic emissions in producing rapid global warming, 1 little action has yet been taken to reduce such emissions.
Ethical Perspectives, 2012
Real-world Economics Review, 2009
In their recent article The Unhappy Thing about Happiness Economics http://www. paecon. net/PAERe... more In their recent article The Unhappy Thing about Happiness Economics http://www. paecon. net/PAEReview/issue46/JohnsOrmerod46. pdf Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod make the strong claim that ���time series data on happiness tells us nothing���. 2 Their argument is based on three main points: that statistically significant correlations between time series happiness data and other important socioeconomic indicators cannot be found, that the nature of happiness scales makes them insensitive and difficult to compare with most other ...
The Philosophers' Magazine, 2011
Social Indicators Research, 2015
ABSTRACT This paper reports two studies that sought to examine whether religiosity moderates the ... more ABSTRACT This paper reports two studies that sought to examine whether religiosity moderates the relationship between income inequality and life satisfaction. Practice-based and belief-based aspects of religion were both included in the analyses. Using multi-level analyses on 85 nations across the world (N = 217,591) and 27 European nations (N = 49,763), we found evidence in support of our hypothesis that religiosity mitigates the negative influence of income inequality on life satisfaction. Our results also indicate that it is religious belief, not religious practice, that functions as a buffer in the relationship between income inequality and life satisfaction. The importance and implications of the results are discussed.
This symposium is the result of our efforts to collect and present what we know about the creatio... more This symposium is the result of our efforts to collect and present what we know about the creation and distribution of happiness. Our aim is to help shift the focus of wellbeing research from the 'I'to the 'we'by celebrating people and places, ideas and institutions, that have made and can make the world a happier place. We call them 'Felicitators'–producers of happiness.
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW). The IJW is an ope... more Welcome to the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW). The IJW is an open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly research on wellbeing (broadly construed). The purpose of the journal is to promote thought and discussion on this vital topic. The launch of the IJW is a direct response to increasing demand both for research on wellbeing and for publishing opportunities for wellbeing researchers.
Overall, I found this to be a very clear and interesting presentation of an important problem. My... more Overall, I found this to be a very clear and interesting presentation of an important problem. My comments attempt to challenge some of the empirical assumptions upon which Cullity's arguments against 'the duty to join in on what we should be doing' are based.
Pleasure is a concept that is put to use in many moral theories, most notably hedonism. However, ... more Pleasure is a concept that is put to use in many moral theories, most notably hedonism. However, the use of pleasure in moral theories has been influentially criticised by the likes of Anscombe and Rawls on the basis that no adequate account of pleasure stands up to close scrutiny. The main obstacle to creating an adequate conception of pleasure is the heterogeneity problem; that various 'pleasures' provided by different sources, such as from reading a good book or from having sex, are so experientially dissimilar that they cannot rightly be classified as members of the same group. The heterogeneity problem has led most philosophers who wanted to hold on to the concept of pleasure to abandon simple felt-quality theories of pleasure in favour of motivational theories of pleasure; they shifted from explaining pleasure by how it feels to reducing it to desires in some way. Motivational theories of pleasure have the advantage of avoiding the heterogeneity problem by unifying diverse pleasures (they are all desired in the right kind of way), but they stray too far from the folk conception of pleasure. Aaron Smuts has convincingly argued that a type of felt-quality theory of pleasure, the Feels Good Theory of Pleasure, can in fact provide a good answer to the heterogeneity problem while maintaining direct contact with the folk notion of pleasure. In this paper I present neuroscientific support for the Feels Good Theory of Pleasure in the hope that it will once again be put to use in moral theories.
Throughout the vast majority of its history, hedonism about well-being has been perennially unpop... more Throughout the vast majority of its history, hedonism about well-being has been perennially unpopular (Feldman 2004). The arguments in this essay take steps towards reviving the plausibility of hedonism about well-being. The main argument currently used to refute hedonism about well-being, the Argument from False Pleasures, is shown to lack sufficient evidence to be compelling.
