Happiness Research - links compendium for the layperson

What makes us happy? It's a central question of the human existence. I've put together a set of links that touch on the topic, and am archiving them here for your amusement as well as my own personal reference.

• Paul Krugman on "Pursuing Happiness" and happiness research. An excellent summary piece to start with.
  
• World Database of Happiness, from the Erasmus University of Amsterdam.
  
• "Honor Versus Hedonism: A Cross-cultural Analysis of the 'Missing Link' Between Income and Subjective Well-being". Paper abstract from University of Michigan.
  
• Observer UK story: Martin Seligman and "Authentic Happiness". A little cheesy.
  
• Dr. Seligman's web site.
  
• Book review: The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, by Gregg Easterbrook.
  
• The Progress Paradox at Amazon.com.
  
• TCS Article:Richard Layard - Income and Happiness. An economic look at the issue.
  
• A page on Dr. Layard with links to .pdf versions of his lectures. Some commentary.
  
• Article: Daniel Gilbert and Affective Forecasting. Fascinating. If you read nothing else on this page, read this. I repeat, fascinating.
  
• Daniel Gilbert's homepage
  
• NYT article: Barry Schwartz on "maximizing" and "satisficing". Schwartz applies decision theory to the happiness question.
  
• Barry Schwartz, "The Tyranny of Choice" in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  
• Schwartz's book The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less at Amazon.com.

There's also a great deal of research on marriage and happiness, but it all comes out of the Heritage Foundation and gets published in the National Review, and I choose to be close-minded and distrust those particular conservative fundamentalist tools of the Man information sources. Enjoy the links.