Happiness Heros Workers and Researchers

[Updated on December 28, 2004]

Dr. Michael Fordyce

• Founder of the exciting field of Happiness-Increase Psychology.

• Published the world's first comprehensive happiness increase study in 1977

• The most significant influence on the applied happiness research.

• Deserves a link on every page of every happy site.

• His visionary work Human Happiness; it's Nature and Attainment

Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman 

• Past president of the American Psychological Association

• 31st most influential psychologist of all time.

• Founder of Martin Seligman Research Alliance

• Researches interest include Positive Psychology, learned helplessness, depression,  optimism -pessimism balance etc.

• Raised over $30 million dollars for the happiness-directed Positive Psychology field he created in 1998.

• Trainined hundreds of happiness coaches

• Happiness research psychologist most directly behind raising the "total tonnage of happiness in the world." 

• Launched Reflective Happiness website in January 2005

• Accessible at Email

• Second website: www.psych.upenn.edu/seligman

 Dr. Ruut Veenhoven 

• Leading authority on "international" happiness, but himself located in The Netherlands

• The most progressive thinker. 

• Founded World Database of Happiness - THE internet source of professional academic information on happiness.

• Complied a list of the most important scientific books on happiness

• Editor of The Journal of happiness Studies,  the first psychology journal entirely devoted to happiness research. 

Dr. Ed Diener

• World's leading happiness researcher and a prolific author.

• Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois.

• Has collaborated extensively with many other top researchers. 

• Probably the most authoritative in the field. 

• Co-edited Well-being; The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology, the most theoretically sophisticated book on happiness yet.

• Excellent segment on frequently asked questions about happiness.

• Has led the field for the last thirty (30) years,

• Has yet to publish a happiness-increase study, the cutting edge and extremely important topic in Happiness-Increase Psychology.

• Contactable at Ed Diener, Ph.D. Psychology Department University of Illinois  603 E. Daniel St. Champaign, IL 61820 Email.

Robert Muller and Barbara Muller

• Former UN Assistant Secretary General

• Co founder and Former Chancellor
  of the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica

•  Has provided direction for the 21st centure in his Idea or Dreams For A Better World

• Recipient of 2002 World Citizenship Award awarded by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's .

• Author of a  prizewinning essay on world governance

• Has devoted much of his life to the peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations, directly assisting three UN secretaries generals.

• Envisioned Paradise On Earth Plan 2050

• Launched Good Morning World website

• E mail: [email protected]

• Email  Barbara Gaughen Muller

David Myers 

• Author of numerous papers on happiness with a religious angle and  of The Pursuit of Happiness. a Quiet Word and psychology textbooks.

• Fouder of The Myers Foundation

• Authored the most popular college level introductory psychology textbook. 

• A very kind man.

• Accessible at Email

Daniel Kahneman 

• Top happiness researcher, awarded the 2002 Nobel prize in economics.

•  ?for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty.?   

• Co-editor of Well-being; The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology.  

Michael Argyle

• Authored in 1989, The Psychology of Happiness, an excellent book reviewing happiness research - a must read for anyone wishing happiness.

• Updated this important work by publishing a 2001 second edition.

• Passed on in England in September of 2002

 Dr. Kennon Sheldon   

• Is reviving and expanding upon the happiness-increase work Dr. Fordyce pioneered in the late 1970s. 

• compellingly encourages a new wave of happiness-increase experimentation and practical happiness-increase applications throughout society. 

• Demonstrated that happiness level gains can be enduring (remain in effect long-term).

 Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky 

• Russian psychology researcher

• A visionary among the new generation of happiness-increase researchers.

• Addresses the issue of happiness levels in a part of the world with  one of the lowest happiness levels in the world.

 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

• Referred to by Dr. Seligman as the "brains" behind the new Positive Psychology movement

• Active in the promotion of happiness-increase.

Dr. Robert Emmons 

• Author of twenty (20) papers on happiness

• Has demonstrated the power of gratitude in increasing happiness.

 Dr. Ron Inglehart

• Director of the University of Michigan based World Values Surveys.

• The most authoritative happiness polling organization in the world. 

• His organization's latest 1999-2001 report (released in April, 2004) reveals that the happiest countries in the world are Nigeria, Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, and Puerto Rico.

Bruce Headey

• Has been researching happiness for decades

• Co-author of the influential Understanding Happiness published in 1992.

David Lyyken

• His name means happiness in his native language Norwegian

• In 1996 advanced the theory that the fact of happiness being at least 50% genetically deremined was not subject to behavior modification or ohter interventions leading to the inference that attempting to become happier was a futile pursuit. This has since been partaly refused and thus amended.

• Published a book  in 1999 entitled Happiness that presents principles and techniques for becoming happier.

Dr. Madan Kataria

[DMK - A-001, Denzil, 3rd Cross Road,  Opp. High Point Restaurant, Lokhandwala Complex,  Andheri (W), Mumbai-400053. India . Ph : +91-22- 2631 6426 / +91-22- 26324293
 E-Mail : [email protected] ]

[Yahoo messanger handle : madankataria ]

• Founding President of Laughter Clubs International.
  Known as the Merry Medicine Man and the Guru of Giggling.

• Pioneered the novel technique of Laughter Therapy based on Yoga, Dr Kataria�s innovative laughter yoga doctrine.

•  Guides and directs the now number over 800 Laughter Clubs  in India, USA, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Dubai.

• Has practised medicine in Bombay (India) for the past 15 years as internist and a preventive cardiologist.

• Retired from the position of ex-registrar of  Cardiology from the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre (Bombay).

• Featured in Asia's Who is Who (NHK TV, Japan) and has appeared in numerous publications including Time Magazine, National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Daily Telegraph (UK) and Colors Magazine in Italy.

• Has appeared on BBC, CNN, NHK (Japan), ABC News (USA) and numerous other television networks worldwide. In 1999

•  Filmed in Laughter Clubs of India by Director Mira Nair
  
  Corporate consultant for Holistic Health and Stress Management to a number of national and multinational companies.

• Has conducted workshops and seminars in USA, Australia, Singapore, Italy and UK. His client list includes Hewlett Packard (Denmark), SAS Airlines and Volvo Automobiles (Sweden), Emirates Bank and Emirates Airlines, (UAE), Glaxo Pharmaceuticals (India), and the Ministry of Manpower and Social Welfare (Singapore).
  
  The author of Laugh For No Reason and the family health guide Self- Medication, How Useful, How Harmful?

• Guarantees to have your audience laughing in ten minutes.

• Co-founder of World Hapiness Society (WHS)

Dr. Pradeep K. Verma [PKV

[Yahoo messanger handle : hahehohuhohu ]

• Idol and Guru of the Founding President of Laughter Clubs International - Dr. Madan Kataria since elementary school days.

•  Mentror and colleague of the Merry Medicine Man and the Guru of Giggling Dr. Kataria since medical school and has been a stand-up comic and leader.

• winner of several academic awards and medals

• Practiced medicine for 10 years in India and Canada.

• Honoured with a Fellowship in Neuro-Immunology by the Muscular Dystrophy Association through Univesity of British Columbia.

• Author of peer reviewed neuro-immunological papers.

• Rated top 2% of the nuerologists of North America.

• Co-founder of HaHeHoHuHoHu group  (Happy, Healthy-Helping, Hopeful - Honourable, Humble, and Honest Humans) and Listserv group posting site.

• Co-founder of World Hapiness Society (WHS)

Dr. Carole Ann Brown [CAB:

[Yahoo messanger handle : hahehohuhohu ]

• Famous for the loudest laughter and a compulsive comic.

• Owner of a kind heart - known to pick all strays - humans, feline, canines or birds.

• Veterinarian trained at University of Guelph - Canada

• Has been practising Veterinary Medicine since 1991.

• Regularly featured philanthropist in local newspapers.

• Member of Zonta Club of Nanaimo ( a member club of Zonta International ) and has served as Secretary and Treasurer and director on the board of this organization.

• Co-founder of HaHeHoHuHoHu group  (Happy, Healthy-Helping, Hopeful - Honourable, Humble, and Honest Humans) and Listserv group posting site.

• Co-founder of World Hapiness Society (WHS)

George Ortega

[HGO - 4 Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, White Plains, New York. 10605 Ph: 914-946-1824]

• Began researching advances in overcoming chronic pain in early days.
  Produced and co-hosted a weekly local cable television program Conversations in Mind in September 2002.

• Advocates that happiness is  the point of ethics, psychology, and everything else in life.

• Cablecasted the first episode of The Happiness Show, our world's first television program entirely about happiness on May 1st 2003.

• Advocates the need for more extensive happiness-increase research and  societal happiness-increase strategies like the creation of happiness.

• A man on fire of optimism investing enormous energy.

• Co-founder of World Happiness Society (WHS)

Lionel Ketchian

[LRK - 725 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06824 Ph: (203) 258-7777 ]

[Yahoo messanger handle :  pending ]

• President of LRK Communications, Inc. and it's division, American Litho since 1979.

•  Founder of Connecticut-based club Happiness Club. in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1999 with Thomas Finelli.

• Hosts free monthly Happiness Club meetings.

• Authors the bi-weekly column, Be Happy Zone, in the Fairfield Citizen-News to encourage people to choose happiness over misery.

• He publishes a free bi-weekly e-mail newsletter entitled Happ-E-Newsletter.

• Author of the book-in-a-can Food For Thought.

• Co-hosts the weekly cable television program The Happiness Show.

• Aa a NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner he has helped people overcome fears, anxieties, and phobias (testimonial letters on file).

• Has co-hosted  Successful Living, a live, call-in Radio Talk Show, for 9 years which was given a # 1 rating in 1994.

• Publicized as "The Happiness Guru." by Connecticut Post.

• Listed in Who's Who i in North America, and of the World.

• Co-founder of World Hapiness Society (WHS)

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Aymee Branch [ ABR - 306 Jersey San Francisco, CA 94114]

[Yahoo messanger handle :  positiveleadership]

•  Hostess of The Happy Zone. and works in front of the camera.

• Pursuing her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology

• Pursuing  to increase global happiness

• President of the Happiness Club in California

• Managed  human resources of a large financial services corporation.

• Operates  her own happiness coaching company

• Co-founder of World Hapiness Society (WHS)

Katie Chamberlin [KCL -  pending ]

• B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in information systems.

• Has background is in the legal and technical field of healthcare industry.

• Starting her own company with a vision to increase global happiness

• Promoting  an earth- friendly lifestyle.
  

Maria Teresa Carretero [MTC - pending ]

• Ppursuing her B.S. in psychology at U.C. Berkeley.

• Has studied medicine in Argentina

• Has several years of experience in media from acting and production assistance in Los Angeles. She is currently working as an intern.

• Plans to employ her full time with duties in the areas of public relations, marketing and production assistance.
  Stephen White - [email protected]

Jane Bradley

 [Ph: 905-684-6242, or E-mail:  [email protected] Yahoo Messenger Handle: happinessclubniagara]

• runs the Canada Happiness Club Meetings in Niagara Falls Canada.
  

Bill Kelly

[Ph: 804-639-0678 Richmond, Virginia E-mail: [email protected] .Messenger Handle: pending]

Dr. Bob Nozik
 [Ph: 925 939-8655  Email  [email protected] Messenger Handle: pending]

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Dr. Michael Fordyce [ http://www.gethappy.net]

The Happiness Show [http://www.thehappinessshow.com/]

The Happiness Club [ http://www.happinessclub.com]

In Pursuit of Happiness (Documentary) [http://www.inpursuitofhappiness.us]

One Happy Movie (Documentary)http://www.onehappymovie.com

Secret Society of Happy People http://sohp.com/

Authentic Happiness Coaching http://www.authentichappinesscoaching.com/

World database of happiness : http://www2.eur.nl/fsw/research/happiness/index.htm

 Dr. Ed Diener's Website : http://s.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener/

Journal of Happiness Studies :  http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1389-4978/current

David Myers's Website:  http://www.davidmyers.org/happiness/

Sonja Lyubomirsky's Website: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~sonja/

The Rational Basis of Happiness Radio Show : http://www.drkenner.com/

Dr. Ellen Kenner's Website - Host of Radito Show Email

Dr. Ellen Kenner - The RATIONAL Basis of Happiness�
51 Jefferson Blvd., Suite 400, Warwick, RI 02888 Ph: (401) 785-0683
nw5273@ drkenner.com

Coaching to Happiness .Com: http://www.coachingtohappiness.com/

Total Life Planning Institute Happiness Coaching  http://www.tlpinstitute.com/happiness.htm

The Option Institute:  http://www.option.org/programs/p_how.shtml

The Happy Zone : http://www.thehappyzone.com

QU0TES: Happiness Is . . . (Happiness quotes)
 http://www.happiness-is-online.com/index.html

Also has Life Quotes, Success Quotes, Love Quotes and Friendship Quotes and hundreds of  Happy Stories

Happying.com website of Michael Nugent in Dublin or Gerard in Boston

The wizard and scientist's top web sites, contains from After-Hours Inspirational Stories to Wowzone. Grouped under very popular, inspiring, self-growth, scientific and spiritual.
 The wizard and scientist build a pyramid, the bricks of which spell HOW I AM SO HAPPY. The five foundations stones spell the word HAPPY:

H = Health (balanced health)

A = Action (focused activity)

P = People (close relationships)

P = Purpose (sense of meaning)

Y = Yes! (feeling good)

Michael Nugent believes you will happy more often when you have these five areas of your life in balance. Endorsements on happiness incrase by these authorities:

Steve Goodier, Colorado, USA, founder of Life Support System Inc. Email

Saly Huss, California, artist and founder Sally Huss Galleries

Senator David Norris, Ireland, politician and academic

Dr. Bill Tormey, Ireland, G.P. and Consultant Pathologist, Beaumont Hospital Ireland�s national centre for neurology

Dr. Declan Lyons, Ireland, Consultant Psychiatrist, St. Patrick's Hospital says "I would have no hesitation to recommend it to my patients as an adjunctive tool while recovering from clinical depression."

Mike Lonergan's Happy Place : http://www.happyplace.net/

Copyright � 1998 - 2002, happyplace.netTM, Inc.

Happiness Crusader 85 Wisdom Lane Lexington, VA 24450 Ph: (540)261-1617

E-mail: [email protected]

David Leonhardt - The Happy Guy : http://www.thehappyguy.com/

The website for the finders happiness and or through self-actualization

Maximize Your Happiness
For those who are yearning to live a life filled with happiness.
 MichelleLee Hemphill Maximize your happiness website
www.maximizeyourhappiness.com
www.michellehemphill.com
[email protected]
615-491-4111

Smiley Central -10,000 - Free Smileys Website

 http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZNxdm776

Smiley Outlet Online

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• Randy J. Larsen Washington University, St. Louis
  Emotion, the physiology of emotion, rhythms personality traits and emotion, evolution
• Robert A. Emmons University of California at Davis
  Goals, religion and well-being
• Richard Lucas Michigan State University
  Personality traits and subjective well-being, extraversion
• William Pavot University of Minnesota at Marshall
  Measuring subjective well-being, traits and well-being, discrepancies and well-being
• Frank Fujita University of Indiana at South Bend
  Social comparison and well-being
• Shige Oishi University of Virginia
  Norms and values and subjective well-being
• Richard Smith University of Kentucky
  Envy and jealousy, social comparison
• Ed Sandvik Seattle, WA
  Analysis of large data sets
• Ulrich Schimmack University of Toronto at Mississauga
  Emotion and mood; memory for emotional episodes
• Heidi Smith United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO
  Measurement issues related to self-deception and social desirability
• Eunkook "Mark" Suh Yonsei University (South Korea)
  Culture and well-being
• Alexander Grob University of Bern (Switzerland)
  Development
• Michael Eid University of Geneva (Switzerland)
  Personality and psychometrics
• Hongfei Yang Zhejiang University (People's Republic of China)
  Cultural approaches to goal striving
• Do-Yeong Kim Macquarie U. (Australia)
  Subjective well-being and implicit social cognition; Culture and Implicit Psychological Acculturation
• Christie Napa Scollon Texas Christian University
  Judgements of well-being; momentary experience sampling
• Maya Tamir Stanford University
  Emotion and personality
• Derrick Wirtz
  Peak/End effects on judgements of well-being; processes affecting life satisfaction judgments

• Emily Solberg
  Materialism and subjective well-being, extraversion
• Weiting Ng
• Chu Kim-Prieto
  Subjective well-being and culture
• Will Tov
  Moral judgments and their relation to well-being

HOPEFUL, �Hard-up Older Person Expecting Full Useful Life�,

Seek 2 http://www.seek2.com/

American Psychiatric Association (Search on Topic of �Depression�) www.psych.org

Keep families together http://capwiz.com/psych/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=5687076

Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment www.arise.org
Depression www.nimh.nih.gov/depression/index.htm
Mental Wellness.com: Clinical Depression www.mentalwellness.com/referenc/knowledg/clinical.htm
National Foundation for Depressive Illness www.depression.org
Psych Central www.grohol.com/web.htm#B
Psycom.net www.psycom.net
Psychweb www.psych-web.com

Happiness in Canada Since World War II Social Indicators Research 65(1): 109-123; Jan 2004 Roderick Hill Abstract | PDF |  Search for documents similar to this in: Social Indicators Research  /  All Journals

 

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Freedom and Rationality as Predictors of Cross-National Happiness Patterns: The Role of Income as a Mediating Variable Journal of Happiness Studies 4(3): 295-321; Jan 2003 Heinz Welsch Abstract | PDF |  Search for documents similar to this in: Journal of Happiness Studies  /  All Journals

 

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Economy, Values and Happiness in Norway Journal of Happiness Studies 4(3): 243-283; Jan 2003 Ottar Hellevik Abstract | PDF |  Search for documents similar to this in: Journal of Happiness Studies  /  All Journals

 

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Hedonism and Happiness Journal of Happiness Studies 4(4): 437-457; Jan 2003 Ruut Veenhoven Abstract | PDF |  Search for documents similar to this in: Journal of Happiness Studies  /  All Journals

 

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Health and happiness in young Swiss adults Quality of Life Research 13(1): 171-178; Feb 2004 Thomas V. Perneger; Patricia M. Hudelson; Patrick A. Bovier Abstract | PDF |  Search for documents similar to this in: Quality of Life Research  /  All Journals