Boehm, J K. & S. Lyubomirsky, Journal of Career Assessment. Vol 16(1), Feb 2008, 101–116.
C. Robert Cloninger, Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being, Oxford, 2004.
McMahon, Darrin M., Happiness: A History, Atlantic Monthly Press, November 28, 2005. ISBN 0-87113-886-7
McMahon, Darrin M., The History of Happiness: 400 B.C. – A.D. 1780, Daedalus journal, Spring 2004.
Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness, Knopf, 2006.
Carol Graham (2010), Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hills P., Argyle M. (2002). "The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire: a compact scale for the measurement of psychological well-being. Personality and Individual Differences". Psychological Wellbeing. 33: 1073–1082.
Koenig HG, McCullough M, & Larson DB. Handbook of religion and health: a century of research reviewed (see article). New York: Oxford University Press; 2001.
Barbara Ann Kipfer, 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, Workman, 1990/2007, ISBN 978-0-7611-4721-3.
Stefan Klein, The Science of Happiness, Marlowe, 2006, ISBN 1-56924-328-X.
Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons From A New Science, Penguin, 2005, ISBN 978-0-14-101690-0.
David G. Myers, Ph. D., The Pursuit of Happiness: Who is Happy—and Why, William Morrow and Co., 1992, ISBN 0-688-10550-5.
Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph. D., Authentic Happiness, Free Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7432-2298-9.
Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Analysis of Happiness, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1976
Journal of happiness studies: an interdisciplinary forum on subjective well-being, International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), quarterly since 2000, also online
Carol Graham "Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires", OUP Oxford, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-954905-4 (favorable review in Science 6 August 2010)
W. Doyle Gentry "Happiness for dummies", 2008
Jimmy DeMesa, M.D. "BeHappy!: Your Guide to the Happiest Possible Life", 2006
Eric G. Wilson "Against happiness", 2008
Sonja Lyubomirsky "The how of happiness", 2007
Niek Persoon "Happiness doesn't just happen", 2006
Richard Layard "Happiness", 2005
Desmond Morris "The nature of happiness", 2004
Gregg Easterbrook "The progress paradox – how life gets better while people feel worse", 2003
Ben Renshaw "The secrets of happiness", 2003
Martin E.P. Seligman "Authentic happiness", 2002
Alexandra Stoddard "Choosing happiness – keys to a joyful life", 2002
Robert Holden "Happiness now!", 1998
Joop Hartog & Hessel Oosterbeek "Health, wealth and happiness", 1997
Ruut Veenhoven "Bibliography of happiness – world database of happiness: 2472 studies on subjective appreciation of life", 1993
Neil Kaufman "Happiness is a choice", 1991
Michael W. Eysenck "Happiness – facts and myths", 1990
Lynne McFall "Happiness", 1989
Michael Argyle "The psychology of happiness", 1987
Ruut Veenhoven "Conditions of happiness", 1984
Elizabeth Telfer "Happiness: an examination of a hedonistic and a eudaemonistic concept of happiness and of the relations between them...", 1980
Norman M. Bradburn "The structure of psychological well-being", 1969
Bertrand Russell "The conquest of happiness", orig. 1930 (many reprints)
Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? – Video of a short lecture by Dan Gilbert our how our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
