Meaning of happyology | Babel Free

Definitions

The study of happiness.

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Examples

“A leader in the multi-disciplinary field of happyology is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of the University of Chicago, a psychology author and educator who has hunted optimal experiences as though they were butterflies.”

“Positive psychology is not happyology. Although happiness is an important goal for humanity and a worthy topic of study⟳, positive psychology does not focus⟳ exclusively on the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure.”

“Although Seligman (e.g., Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2000) has distanced himself from this position, there is a danger of positive psychology degenerating into happyology, addressing a naıve belief that the only important thing to life is being happy.”

“This publication is not a cheat sheet, a “happyology” manual, or a Band-Aid that will fix⟳ that distressed kid and send⟳ him to a magical haven of learning.”

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