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Happiness

Happiness Topics
If this is your first visit to this page, I suggest that you read these topics in the order listed.

  1. Why Do People Want To Be Happy?
  2. The Study of Happiness
  3. The Adaptation-Level Principle
  4. The Relative Deprivation Principle
  5. Predictors of Happiness

This information about happiness is based on material from pages 346-350 of Exploring Psychology (3rd Ed.) by David G. Myers. © 1996 by Worth Publishers, Inc. Used by permission.

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Send comments or questions via e-mail to myers@hope.edu.

Or mail your comments to this address:

    Professor David G. Myers
    Hope College Psychology Department
    PO BOX 9000
    Holland, MI 49422-9000