Happiness: The Nature and Nurture of Joy and Contentment

By D. Lykken. 2000

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Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change (2005, background): “Thus, unwanted effects of genes could be minimized by active efforts to steer oneself away from situations that detract from well-being or by avoiding being enticed toward maladaptive behaviors (Lykken, 2000; Lyubomirsky, 2001).”
“I Did Not Have Time to Play Growing Up… So This is My Play Time. It's the Best Thing I Have Ever Done for Myself”: What is Play to Older Women? (2008, background): “Lykken (2000) concurred and added that intervention strategies that cultivate positive emotions may be of particular importance in preventing and treating negative emotions like anxiety, depression, and stress-related health problems and in contributing to characteristics that promote successful…”
World happiness report (2012, background): “See for example Lykken (1999) and De Neve et al. (2011).”
Achieving Sustainable Gains in Happiness: Change Your Actions, not Your Circumstances* (2006, background): “As Lykken (2000) has argued, despite a genetically-determined baseline for well-being, humans are capable of increasing their happiness relative to this baseline through various ‘‘happiness makers.’’”
Good morning, good day: A diary study on positive emotions, hope, and work engagement (2012, result): “Although it is generally accepted that average levels of well-being are at least partly genetically determined (Lykken, 1999), our results convincingly show that daily fluctuations around this set-point do occur.”
The state of wellbeing science: Concepts, measures, interventions, and policies (2014, background): “Studies of twins who have completed a wellbeing questionnaire have claimed to show a large hereditary component underlying responses to the questionnaire (Lykken, 2000).”
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010, background): “Th is obstacle, it is worth noting, may conceivably relate to or interact with the set point or temperament; indeed, the rate of adaptation may itself be genetically determined (Lykken, 2000 ; Lykken, Iacono, Haroian, McGue, & Bouchard, 1988 ).”
Genes and Ideologies (2008, background): “…reporting on Rice and Hibbing 2004, Jost et al. 2003, and Bouchard et al. 2003; “Happiness is Mostly Genetic,” Forbes, September 23, 2004, reporting on Lykken 2000; “Smoking Linked to Anger Gene,” Herald Sun, February 14, 2004, reporting on Fallon et al. 2004; “British Scientists Discover…”
The Set-Point Theory of Well-Being: Negative Results and Consequent Revisions (2007, background): “In successive papers, using somewhat different approaches, they have claimed that genetic factors account for about 50% of the variance in SWB (Lykken and Tellegen 1996), or perhaps close to 100% (Lykken 2000).”
Satisfaction with Life and Hope: A Look at Age and Marital Status (2007, result): “…studies showing that married people appear to be happier than their nonmarried counterparts (see diener, 2000; Kahneman, diener, & schwartz, 1999; lykken, 1999), we predicted that analogous findings would emerge for self-reported hope (i.e., married people would have the highest hope). method”
Achieving Sustainable New Happiness: Prospects, Practices, and Prescriptions (2012, background): “Thus, unwanted effects of genes could be minimized by active efforts to steer oneself away from problematic situations or to avoid maladaptive behaviors (Lykken, 2000).”
Positive psychology in practice (2004, background): “Thus, unwanted effects of genes could be minimized by active efforts to steer yourself away from problematic situations or to avoid maladaptive behaviors (Lykken, 2000).”