Happiness Research: A Review of Critiques

Keywords

Happiness, Criticism, Normative, Scientism, Subjectivity

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• Positive psychology school‐based interventions: A reflection on current success and future directionsAlicia R. Chodkiewicz, Christopher Boyle — 2017
• Challenges Faced – Implications for Policy: The Everyday Lives of Eastern European Women in New ZealandAdrienna Ember — 2016
• The Disregarding of Heteronormativity: Emphasizing a Happy Queer Adulthood and Localizing Anti-Queer Violence to Adolescent SchoolsDoug Meyer — 2017
• A ‘movement for improvement’? A qualitative study of the adoption of social movement strategies in the implementation of a quality improvement campaignJustin Waring, Amanda Crompton — 2017
• Happiness research ignores social factorsPatricia Neville — 2017
• Positive psychology’s promise of happiness: A new form of human capital in contemporary neoliberal governmentalityRodrigo De La Fabián, Antonio Stecher — 2017
• ‘Unhappy News’: Process, Rhetoric, and Context in the Making of the Happiness ProblemAshley Frawley — 2018
• Is a Fixer-Upper Actually a Downer? Homeownership, Gender, Work on the Home, and Subjective Well-beingEric A. Morris — 2018
• School-based positive psychology interventions: The development of a new evaluation process and interventionAlicia R. Chodkiewicz — 2018
• Negative Reflections About Positive Psychology: On Constraining the Field to a Focus on Happiness and Personal AchievementOksana Yakushko, Eva Blodgett — 2021
• How WEIRD are positive psychology interventions? A bibliometric analysis of randomized controlled trials on the science of well-beingTom Hendriks, Meg A. Warren, Marijke Schotanus-Dijkstra — 2018
• Happiness and Health.Andrew Steptoe — 2019
• Social psychology, consumer culture and neoliberalism: A response to Phelps and White (2018)Matthew McDonald, Brendan Gough, Stephen Wearing — 2019
• Affective modulation in positive psychology’s regime of happinessAntar Martínez‐Guzmán, Alí Lara — 2019
• Validity of the Hungarian version of the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS-HU)Attila Szabó — 2019
• Adaptation to the Suicidal NicheC. A. Soper — 2019
• Language and happiness: Cultural epistemologies and ideological conflicts in Finnish online discourses on the causes of happinessTomi Visakko, Eero Voutilainen — 2020
• Building Wellbeing in People With Chronic Conditions: A Qualitative Evaluation of an 8-Week Positive Psychotherapy Intervention for People Living With an Acquired Brain InjuryChloe Tulip, Zoe Fisher, Helen Bankhead — 2020
• The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Positive PsychologyBrown, Nicholas J. L., Lomas, Tim 1979-, Eiróa Orosa, Francisco José 1981- — 2017

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