The World Database of Happiness is an online compendium of available studies on happiness, also known as "subjective well-being," a topic of strong and growing interest in the social sciences. The database is maintained and directed by sociologist Ruut Veenhoven (emer., Erasmus Univ., the Netherlands), who began the project in 1983 in print format and digitized the contents beginning in 1994.

Currently the website includes a bibliography of more than 7,000 publications, 759 measures of happiness in more than 1,500 studies, and data covering 165 nations. Many additional findings and reports are waiting to be entered. The website is easy to navigate, even for data novices. The collections and subjects are clearly labeled on the left-hand side of the screen. Users can find reports on happiness by nation, by publics (e.g., infants, gender, communal living, to name a few), and many other variables. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Social science students at all levels; faculty; researchers. -- S. M. Metcalf, Western Carolina University Reviewed in 2012oct CHOICE.
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Called to happiness :  where faith and psychology meet.

Rethinking Happiness: PBS program - 60 min

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