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AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 36
Acceptance, desire for, 61
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), 39
Accidental creative hubs (ACHs), 138
Adams, Douglas, 207
Adler, Jonathan, 19
Air conditioning, desire for, 27, 28
Air traffic control (ACT), 57–58, 115, 172
Ali, Muhammad, 16
Altruism, anger and, 74
Altruistic appeal, 169
American Academy of Pediatrics, 210
American Psychological Association, 37
Ancient Greece, 12
Anger, ix, x, 12, 29, 53, 63–79, 94, 132, 201, 214, 218
benefits of, 68–72, 93, 112–114
expression of authentic, 74–79
faking, 72
prejudice against, 74
Anger Disorders (Kassinove), 76
Anterior cingulate cortex, 218
Anterior prefrontal cortex, 124
Antibacterial soap, 11
amount of, 87–88
disorders, 40
effectively harnessing and using, 92–94
novelty and, 211
reframing as excitement, 199
Aquaman, 188–191
Aquinas, Thomas, 135
Ariely, Dan, 107
Aristotle, 202
Asian cultures, 45–49, 52, 98–99, 193
Asthma, 29
Astronomy, 1
Automatic processing, 127
Automobile driving, 36, 165–166, 168
Autopilot thinking, 128–139
Avoidance, 40
of discomfort, 11
of negative emotions, 61–66
of pleasure, 12
Baaren, Rick van, 129
Baby names, 165
Barnett, Rachel, 176
Baumeister, Roy, 54, 55, 85, 161, 198, 204
Baumgartner, Melanie, 17
Bedlow, Ronald, 9
Berridge, Kent, 119
Better-than-average effect, 164
Bixler, Robert, 33
Body language, 192
Bonaparte, Napoléon, 183
Bonnefron, Jean-François, 142
Booing, 173–174
Brain
capacity principle, 143
naps and, 137–138
scans, 124
Brooks, Alison Wood, 198–199
Buddhism, 209
Bundy, Anita, 42
Caldicott, Helen, 74
California Gold Rush of 1859, 16
Cantril, Hadley, 96
Car sales techniques, 168–169
Carnegie, Andrew, 183
Carroll, Brigid, 209
Carryover effect, 100
Chang, Edward, 193–195
Children
comfort addiction and, 41–44, 51–52
honesty and, 164
Cialdini, Robert, 101
Civil rights movement, 33
Clinton, Bill, 34
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), 38
Cohen, Sheldon, 98
Comfort addiction, 24–25, 27–29, 51, 191
emphasis on, 10–11
origins of, 29–37
Comfort food, 34
Comfort zone, 35
Comfortable sensations, 32
Comic book heroes, 188–190
Conscious thinking, 125–127
Contrast effect, 99–100
Cortisol, 97
Cosmides, Leda, 89
mindfulness and, 134
mindlessness and, 134–139
Cultural differences, 45–49, 52, 98–99, 193
Dahl, Jeff, 178–180
Dallas Mavericks, 173
Davidson, Richard, 124
Death with dignity laws, 35
Decision making, mindless, 127, 143–147
Defense mechanisms, 46
Defensive pessimism, 194–196
Depression, xi, 3, 9, 36, 40, 46–47, 50, 63, 64, 104, 132
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), 37, 40
Dijksterhuis, Ap, 23, 128, 144, 146
Disappointment, 55
Discomfort, 24–26, 29, 49, 51, 156
avoidance of, 11
Disgust sensitivity, 32–33
Disqualifying positives, 12
Distinction bias, 117–118
Distress tolerance, viii
Dominance, 158
Doodling, 136–137
Dreams, 139
Drucker, Peter, 122
Du Bois, W. E. B., 73
Edison, Thomas, 183
Egoistic appeal, 169
Embarrassment, ix, 60, 61, 132
Emotion labeling, 216–217
Emotional agility, 18–20, 115, 201
Emotional expressions, 59
Emotional regulation, mindless, 132–133
Emotional safeguarding, 43
Emotional time travel, 5–6
Energy consumption, 31
Entitlement, 154, 160, 161, 165
Essentialism, concept of, 219
Eudaimonia, 202
Evans, Angela, 164
Everest Disaster (1996), 15
Experiential avoidance, 36, 216
Exposure therapy, 215–216
Eye contact, 125
Eysenck, Hans, 184
Facial expressions, 57, 59, 125, 192
False memories, 104–105
Fantasy, 17
Fearlessness, 156–157
Feiler, Daniel, 169
First impressions, 128–129
Fitness for duty, 198
Flash, 191
Flattery, 177
Flourishing Scale, 3–4
Floyd, Myron, 33
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), 124
Follette, Victoria, 39
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 106
Food allergies, 29
Ford, Henry, 183
Forgas, Joseph, 103
Fotel, Trine, 41
Fredrickson, Barbara, 3
Freud, Sigmund, xi, 30–31, 37, 50
Frustration, 16, 32, 55, 59, 65, 112
Full engagement, 198
Gandhi, Mahatma, 157, 183, 213
Gandhi, Tushar, 213
Garcea, Nicky, 140
Gender gap, 195–196
Gifford, Elizabeth, 39
Gilbert, Daniel, 5
Giving up, 29
Goals, 16–17
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 156
Goncalo, Jack, 182
Grandiosity, 157, 160, 161, 167, 182, 185
Green Lantern, 191
Greenberg, David, 136
Guilt, ix, x, 16, 40, 94, 161, 215
autonomy in dealing with, 86–87
confused with shame, 82
crime and, 82
defined, 83
soft influence and, 175–176
suggestions for inspiring without shame, 86–87
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 30
Happiness. (see also Positive emotions; Wholeness)
Americans and, 26–27, 98–99, 193
biases, 117–120
health and, 98
interference with success and, 100–106
of Jesus, 25–26
mild unhappiness and, 120–121
Harburg, Ernest, 75
Hard influence, 172–174
Harkness, Kate, 57
Harvard Business Review, 182–183
Hayes, Steven, 39
Health, happiness and, 98
Health and Human Services, US Department of, 29
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich von, 31
Helicopter parenting, 43
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 50
Hensch, Doug, 79–81
Hershfield, Hal, 19
Heuristic thinking, 128
Hinduism, 209
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams), 207
Home ownership, 27
Honesty, children and, 164
Hopelessness, 47
Hsee, Christopher, 117
Human potential movement, 38
Humanists, 50
Hygiene hypothesis, 29
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sallew (Seuss), 48
Icarus complex, 119–120
Identity formation, 198
Impact bias, 117
Imposter syndrome, 14
Improvisation, 180
Impulsive action, 127, 139–143
Industrialization, 31
Infidelity, 132
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Cialdini), 101
Inhibition, lack of, 142
Insula, 218
Intellectual challenge, 43, 44
Jackson, Phil, 123
Jacobs, Matthew, 66–67
James, William, 50
Joiner, Thomas, 64
Justice, US Bureau of, 81
Kabat-Zinn, Jon, 124
Kaplan, Seth, 115
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 53
Kassinove, Howard, 76
Kaufman, Scott Barry, 134–135
Keltner, Dacher, 20
Kepler, Johannes, 1
Keyes, Corey, 3
Kim, Esther, 21
Kim, Jinhyung, 204
King, Laura, 26
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 73
Kraut, Richard, 202
Kropp, Göran, 15
Latham, Gary, 148
Lau, Hi Po Bobo, 60
Laziness, of happy people, 104–105
Leadership styles, 115, 121, 156–158
Leander, Pontus, 131
Learned optimism, 38
Lee, Kang, 164
Lin Hao, 181
Lincoln, Abraham, 155
Lindberg, Peter, 181
Loewenstein, George, 107
Los Angeles Lakers, 53
Lying, 179–180
Lyubomirsky, Sonja, 97
Maccoby, Michael, 182–183
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 159–160, 163
Machiavellianism, 159–160, 162, 186, 187, 191
Mahmut, Mehmet, 167
Mandela, Nelson, 157
Manipulation, 168–181, 186, 187, 201
Mao Zedong, 157
Maturity, 198
McKinley, William, 155
Meaning/pleasure, 200–207, 211
Medvedev, Andrei, 137–138
Mellers, Barbara, 5
Memory foam, 35
Merk, Robert, 168
Mesotelencephalic dopamine systems, 118–119
Meurs, Teun, 128
Micro-aggression, 75
Mind wandering, 134–136, 152, 210–211
Mindfulness, 22–23, 123, 127, 131, 150, 153, 191
benefits of, 124–125
creativity and, 134
defined, 123
meditation, 123
Mindlessness, 29, 125, 126, 153, 191
autopilot thinking, 128–139
creativity and, 134–139
decision making and, 127, 143–147
defined, 127
emotional regulation and, 132–133
harnessing, 150–152
mindless interventions, 148–150
Mistakes, value of, 89–80
Moral disgust, 32
Morengo, Adam, 170–172
Mount Everest, 15
Mueller, Jennifer, 184–185
Muir, John, 154
Murder, 63–64
Musk, Elon, 134
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 73
Name-dropping, 177
Naps, 137–138
Narcissism, 157, 159–167, 182–183, 185–187, 191
Narcissus, 160–161
National Institute of Mental Health, 11
National Recidivism Study of Released Prisoners, 81
Natural selection, 88
Naturalist (Wilson), 210
Negative emotions, 8, 9, 12–13, 36, (see also Anger; Anxiety; Guilt; Shame)
avoidance of, 61–66
power of, 54–59
understanding and distinguishing, 217–219
Negotiations, anger and, 72
Neisser, Ulric, 123
Niagara Movement, 73
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 219
Nonverbal accent, 192
Novelty/stability, 200–201, 207–213
Nucleus accumbens, 118
Obsessive thinking, 218–219
Oishi, Shigehiro, 2, 25, 34, 101, 207
Olympic Games (1972), xiii
Opportunity mindset, 199
Optimal performance, 198
optimistic bias, 111
Overspent American, The (Schor), 27
Pace of life, 31
Parental attitudes, 41–44
Performance-enhancement tool, anger as, 68, 71
Perseverance and quitting, 15
Persuasion, 156
happy people and, 101–102
Pessimism, defensive and retroactive, 194–197
Pessimistic bias, 193
Petto, Greg, 58
Piccolo, Ronald, 148
Plato, 157
Playground safety, 42–43
Pleasure, avoidance of, 12
Pleasure/meaning, 200–207, 211
Police work, manipulation and influence and, 169–172
Pomerantz, Eva, 16
Porter, Caleb, 176
Portland Timbers, 176
Positive emotions. (see also Happiness; Wholeness)
positive psychology, xi–xii, 38, 51
recognizing positivity bias, 192–200
Post-traumatic stress disorder, 40
Prefontaine, Steve, xiii
Presidential Doodles (Greenberg), 136
Presidential leadership, 156–157
Prince, The (Machiavelli), 159
Projection bias, 117
Protectionism, 41
Psychology, 49–51
Psychopathy, 156, 159, 161–163, 167, 180, 186, 187, 191
Public speaking, fear of, 199
Pynchon, Thomas, 135–136
Randles, Daniel, 84
Rath, Tom, 158
Reciprocity, 177
Retirement, 207–208
Retroactive pessimism, 196–197
Riley, Pat, 53
Risk assessments, 69
Road-rage incidents, 36, 165–166, 168
Rockefeller, John D., 183
Rogers, Carl, 37
Roles, 180–181
Roommates, moods of, 64
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 155, 183
Roosevelt, Theodore, 154–155, 157–158, 160
Ruby Receptionists, xii
Rumination, 218–219
Russell, Bertrand, 73
Sadness, 16, 59, 60, 104, 113–115, 132, 214
Schooler, Jonathan, 107
Schor, Juliet, 27
Scollon, Christie Napa, 26
Sehnsucht, 17
Self-doubt, 14
Self-esteem, 43
Seligman, Martin, 38
Seuss, Dr., 48
Sexuality, xi
Shakespeare, William, 30, 32, 177
body language and, 84
confused with guilt, 82
defined, 83
drinking behavior and, 83–84
suggestions for inspiring guilt without, 86–87
using as punishment, 85
Shorter, Frank, xiii–xiv
Skin allergies, 29
Sleep comfort, 35
“Sleep on it” phenomenon, 23, 143
Smiling, 192–193
Smith, Sarah, 157
Social situations, mindless detection of, 129–132
Soros, George, 183
Spider-Man, 189
Spiders, fear of, 215–216
Stability/novelty, 200–201, 207–213
Stagecraft, 178–180
Stanford Prison Experiment, 181
Stereotypes, 104, 105, 149, 196
Stoics, 12
Strack, Fritz, 12
Stress, 217
as epidemic, 11
Stretch goals, xii
Striving for supremacy, 166
Strosahl, Kirk, 39
Stumbling on Happiness (Mellers, Wilson, and Gilbert), 5
Subconscious mind, 23
Success
happiness interference with, 100–106
three mindless paths to, 128–139
Sudhaus, Norbert, xiii
Superficial processing style, 102, 103
Superheroes, 188–190
Suppression, 46
Supremacy, striving for, 166
Survival, 89
Sustainable happiness, 9
Teddy Effect, 156–158, 167, 171, 174
three parts of, 159–163
Television, 36–37
Telomeres, 88
Test anxiety, 198
Thomsen, Thyra, 41
Tooby, John, 89
Toohey, Peter, 62
Tracy, Jessica, 84
Trust, 129
happy people and, 102–104
Tsai, Jeanne, 47
Twenge, Jean, 164–166
20 percent edge, 9–10
Uchida, Yukiko, 98–99
Unconscious thinking, 144–147, 150
Uses-for-a-brick task, 70
Value-based living, 212–213
Ventral palladium, 118
Vietnam War, 33
Visser, Victoria, 114
Walking Dead, The (television series), 126–127
Wanting/liking bias, 118–119
Washington, George, 155
Wheatley, Karl, 14
Wholeness, ix–x, xv, 8, 188–189, 197–198, (see also Happiness; Positive emotions)
emotional agility and, 18–20
illustrations of, 13–18
mental agility and, 22–23
novelty/stability, 200–201, 207–213
pleasure/meaning and, 200–207, 211
social agility and, 20–22
Wilson, Edward O., 210
Wilson, Kelly, 39
Wilson, Tim, 5
Wolfe, W. Béran, 95
Wolverine, 189
Worker involvement, 9
World War II, 50
Wyer, Robert, 45
Yao Ming, 181
Yeun, Steven, 126–127
Zimbardo, Phil, 181