You might also be interested in a book we wrote while at The Rand Corporation in the late 1960's
Studies in the quality of life; Delphi and decision-making
by Dalkey, Rourke, Lewis and Snyder, Lexington Books, 1972
I still think it is great work after all of these years.
Some later work I did found happiness was a proper mix of novelity, sociolality and privacy.
Best Ralph
At 01:45 AM 11/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Unless it's been superceded in the last decade, the best study I know of on
>the causes of happiness (or at least what factors happiness correlates
>with) is Michael Argyll's The Psychology of Happiness. I bought this in
>England in the '80s, so it may not be available in the U.S.
>
>Max
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