The Happiness Industry (36 page)

Du Bois, W. E. B.,
98

du Plessis, Erik,
74

dualism,
27
,
28
,
30
,
265

Durkheim, Émile,
200
,
227

Durkheim Project,
227

eBay,
160

e-commerce,
96

economic inequality,
252
,
254

economics

as basis for broad public agreement,
63–4

behavioural economics,
182–3
,
184
,
189
,
210
,
214
,
219
,
256
,
257

blackboard economics,
155
,
158

Chicago School of.
See
Chicago School of economics

divorce of from psychology,
61
,
69

evolution of discipline of,
54

exceptional status attributed to,
26

function of, according to Coase,
156

happiness economics,
5
,
74
,
229
,
252

as mathematical problem,
51

neo-classical economists/economics,
113
,
123
,
181

as phenomenon of the mind,
59

pop-economics,
152

reunion of with psychology,
64
,
182

subjective sensation and,
55

as winner take all,
160

economies

classical political economy,
49–50
,
57

knowledge-based economy,
136

political economy,
50
,
56

sharing economy,
188

social economy,
190

Edgeworth, Francis,
60
,
84

Eisenhower, Dwight David,
255

Ello,
213

emotion

definition,
75

as market research industry's preferred version of happiness/pleasure,
74

emotional contagion,
225

empiricism,
27
,
30
,
152
,
269

employee engagement,
106–9
,
113
,
126

employee fitness-tracking programmes,
240

employee-owned businesses, advantages of,
272

end of theory,
237

Enlightenment,
7
,
19
,
23
,
27
,
47
,
85
,
251

ennui, costs of,
108

enthusiasm,
251

entropy, law of,
115

ergonomics,
50
,
116
,
137

Essay on Government
(Priestley),
13

European Commission,
255

European Management Forum,
1

evidence-based policy-making,
17

existentialism,
38

experience medicine,
126

experienced utility, measurement of,
64

experimental psychology,
81

Exxon Valdez oil spill,
62–3

eye tracking,
72
,
97

eyes, focus on by Wundt,
79–81

Facebook,
10
,
74
,
100
,
189
,
204
,
206
,
207
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208
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209
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210
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213
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220
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221
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224
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225
,
238
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239
,
257
,
269

face-reading software,
222

facial coding,
76
,
97

facial scanning/face-scanning technology,
72
,
222
,
276

farm experiences, benefits of,
246

fatigue, businesses' concern about,
50
,
116
,
120

Fatigue Laboratory (Harvard Business School),
120
,
122

FearFighter,
222

Fechner, Gustav

as coining pleasure principle,
29

distrust of language,
32

dualism of,
28
,
30
,
265

on energy,
29
,
115

as influenced by Hegel,
30

as monist,
33

as new age thinker,
28

parallels in English psychology to,
48

psychophysical methods of,
60

psychophysical parallelism,
259

as representing relationships between mind and world as numerical ratio,
35

on solving mind–body problem using mathematics,
27
,
28

on theory of psychology,
29

weight-lifting experiments of,
30–1
,
38
,
49
,
50
,
59
,
78

Federal Drug, Food and Cosmetic Act (US) (1938),
170

feedback loops/feedback mechanisms,
95
,
103
,
230
,
276

feelings, adjustment of,
31–2

Ferriss, Tim,
112

fit notes,
112

Fitbit,
240

fitness-tracking ticket machine,
240

fMRI,
32
,
231
,
237
,
241
,
261
,
262

focus groups,
102
,
125

Foucault, Michel,
280n22

FP7 research (European Commission),
255

Freakonomics
(Levitt and Dubner),
152

free markets,
19
,
49
,
57
,
69
,
140
,
154
,
181
,
185
,
274

Free: The Future of a Radical Price
(Anderson),
185

Freud, Sigmund,
29
,
164
,
169
,
198
,
200
,
203

Friedman, Milton,
149
,
150
,
154
,
156–7
,
159
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160
,
161

friendship,
186
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187
,
188
,
191
,
197
,
201
,
205
,
208
,
211
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212
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222
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225
,
243
,
258

friendvertising,
189

Gale, Harlow,
83
,
85

Gallup (poll),
9
,
106
,
146
,
219
,
272

Gallup, George,
101

gaming,
205–6

The Genealogy of Morals
(Nietzsche),
84

General Adaptation Syndrome,
129

General Medical Council (Britain),
110

General Motors (GM),
215–16

General Phonograph Manufacturing Company,
200

General Sentiment,
223

generosity,
185
,
196

Georgetown University,
142

German Automobile Manufacturers' Association,
217

Germany, influx of Americans taking university degrees and research training in,
83

Gershon, Michael,
231

Gilbert, Jeremy,
213

Gladwell, Malcolm,
72

global economic management,
3

Google,
37
,
193

Graham, Richard,
205
,
206

gratitude,
33
,
131
,
186
,
187
,
194
,
196
,
210
,
276

group identity,
123

group psychology,
124
,
125

Growing Well,
246
,
247
,
248
,
250

Guze, Samuel,
169

Hague, William,
139–40
,
141
,
142
,
144

Haidt, Jonathan,
73

Hall, G. Stanley,
83
,
84

Halo (game),
205
,
206

Hancock, Jeffrey,
257

happiness

accessing truth of,
229

Bentham on,
18

as biological and physical state of being,
230

current explosion of political and business interest in,
8

current preoccupation with,
69

Jevons on,
113

as like a muscle,
114

as measurable, visible, improvable entity,
3

as not a single quantity,
242

as objective, behavioural event,
257

as preoccupation for economists,
66

as preoccupation for mental health professionals, medical doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and individuals,
174

proxies for,
24

pursuit of via relationships,
209

science of,
209
,
230
.
See also
happiness science

search for measure of,
24–5

as sitting somewhere in between quantitative science and spiritualism,
38

as ultimate purpose of government,
37

workplace happiness,
109
,
113

happiness advocates,
260

happiness economics,
5
,
74
,
229
,
252

happiness gurus,
113
,
211
,
219

happiness measurement,
6
,
11
,
36–7
,
38
,
251
,
260

happiness science,
6
,
7
,
9
,
11
,
20
,
38
,
231
,
250
,
258
.
See also
happiness, science of

happiness studies,
5
,
147

happiness surveys,
267

happiness value, of words,
226

The Happiness Advantage
(Achor),
114

hard-wired,
90
,
183
,
205

Harré, Rom,
266
,
269

Harris, Oren,
170

Harvard Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative,
88

Hawthorne Effect,
123

Hawthorne Studies,
122
,
134

Hayek, Friedrich,
154

health,
126
,
251

Health
2
.0 policies,
228

Health
2
.0 technologies,
135

Health app (iPhone 6),
135

health-tracking wristbands,
276

Healy, David,
171

heart-rate monitoring,
25
,
37
,
137

hedonimeter,
60
,
64

Hegel, G. W. F.,
28
,
30

The Hidden Persuaders
(Packard),
73
,
74

Hilton, Steve,
191

homo economicus
,
61–2

Hoover, Herbert,
100

HOPE (Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement) programme,
235

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale,
175

Hsieh, Tony,
113

Hudson Yards real estate project (NYC),
233–4
,
235
,
237

human capital,
126
,
151
,
160

human existence, ideal form of,
112

human optimality/optimization,
5
,
129
,
274

human resource management,
189
,
238
,
276

human resources profession,
108
,
133

Hume, David,
14

Hyde Park (Chicago),
148

idealism,
27
,
181

Ignite U,
134

imipramine,
162

income inequality,
34
,
144
.
See also
economic inequality

Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies programme,
111

indices,
176

individual choice, theory of,
59

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
(Cialdini),
238

Infoglut
(Andrejevic),
260

Ingeus,
110
,
112

insurance fraud,
42
,
44
,
45
,
46

intangible assets,
126

internet addiction,
204–5
,
207

internships,
274

interventions,
17
,
20
,
35
,
108
,
111
,
265

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
(Bentham),
22

introspection,
22
,
48
,
63
,
64
,
78
,
86

iPhone
6
,
26
,
135

iproniazid,
162

J. Walter Thompson (JWT),
93
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94
,
95
,
97
,
215–16
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217
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218
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220
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225
,
242

James, William,
83
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84
,
86

Jawbone UP,
240