Lesson: How a business-school professor got to teach happiness!

Videos: Week 1 Video 1

Books/Articles:

1. On the lack of correlation between “academic smarts” (IQ/intelligence,

etc.) and “career smarts” (career success):
a. Goleman, D. (2006). Emotional intelligence. Bantam
b. Sternberg, R. J. (2000). Practical intelligence in everyday life. Cambridge University
Press.
c. Van der Zee, K., Thijs, M., & Schakel, L. (2002). The relationship of emotional intelligence
with academic intelligence and the Big Five. European journal of personality, 16(2), 103-
125.
d. Watten, R. G., Syversen, J. L., & Myhrer, T. (1995). Quality of life, intelligence and mood.
Social Indicators Research, 36(3), 287-299. [These authors quote, on p. 296:
“Intelligence is virtually unrelated to QOL [Quality of Life]. Thus, we find IQ to be a
variable of minor interest for future QOL studies.”]

2. On the lack of correlation between “career smarts” (or career success)

and “happy smarts” (or “life success”)
a. Dunn, E., & Norton, M. (2013). Happy money: The science of smarter spending. Simon
and Schuster.
b. Kahneman, D., & Deaton, A. (2010). High income improves evaluation of life but not
emotional well-being. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 107(38), 16489-
16493.
c. Vaillant, G. E. (2012). Triumphs of experience. Harvard University Press.

Other resources:
d. Gregoire, Carolyn (11th August, 2013), “The 75 year study that found the secrets to a
fulfilling life,” Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/11/how-this-
harvard-psycholo_n_3727229.html?ir=India&adsSiteOverride=in
e. Ostow, Mark (June 2009), “What makes us happy?,” The Atlantic; online version:
Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-
us-happy/307439/
f. Slater, Dan, (11th July 2012), “What Harvard’s Grant study reveals about happiness and
life,” Retrieved from http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/07/what-harvard-
s-grant-study-reveals-about-happiness-and-life.html
g. For a perspective on how even the super-rich (those with over $25 million in assets) are
also plagued with insecurity, see Wood, Graeme (April 2011), “Secret fears of the super-
rich,” The Atlantic; online version: Retrieved from
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-fears-of-the-
superrich/308419/?single_page=true