References and Recommended Readings for
AE2H Chapter 10 - Life is FANTASTIC!

• mBraining – Using your multiple brains to do cool stuff, Grant Soosalu and Marvin Oka, 2013

• Introducing Neuro-LinguisticProgramming, Joseph O’Connor and John Seymour, 2011

• Structure of Magic Vol 1., Richard Bandler and John Grinder, 1975

• Using your Brain for a Change, Richard Bandler, 1985

• Authentic Happiness, Martin Seligman, 2004

• Handbook of PositivePsychology, Ed. C. R. Synder & Shane J. Lopez, Oxford University Press, 2011

• Character Strengths andVirtues – A Handbook and Classification, Christopher Peterson & Martin E. P. Seligman, Oxford University Press, 2004

• US News, Kathleen Doheny, Looks, Money, Fame Don't Bring Happiness, http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/05/22/looks-money-fame-dont-bring-happiness.html

• Less Is Sometimes More: Goal Content Matters, Vansteenkiste et al., Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004, http://www.psych.rochester.edu/SDT/documents/2004_VansteenkisteSimonsLensSoenensMatosLacante_LessisMore.pdf

• Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci, Social Development, and Well-Being, American Psychologist, 2000, http://www.psych.rochester.edu/SDT/documents/2000_RyanDeci_SDT.pdf

• A Dark Side of the American Dream: Correlates of Financial Success as a Central Life Aspiration, Tim Kasser and Richard Ryan, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1993, http://www.psych.rochester.edu/SDT/documents/1993_KasserRyan_DarkSide.pdf

• The path taken: Consequences of attaining intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations in post-college life, Edward L. Deci et al., Journal of Research in Personality, 2008, http://www.psych.rochester.edu/SDT/documents/2009_Niemiec%20RyanDeci_JRP.pdf

• The Independent Effects of Goal Contents and Motives on Well-Being: It’s Both What You Pursue and Why You Pursue It, Kennon M. Sheldon et al., Personality And Social Psychology Bulletin, 2004, http://www.psych.rochester.edu/SDT/documents/2004_SheldonRyanDeciKasser.pdf

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: The Synergistic Accumulative Effect of Parents’ Beliefs on Children’s Drinking Behavior, Madon S. et al., http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/madon/madon.psych.science2004.pdf

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Encyclopedia.com, http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3045302386.html#A

• The Expectation Effect, Mike Bellah, http://www.bestyears.com/expectations.html

• Cultivating happiness often misunderstood, says Stanford researcher, Stanford Report, April 14, 2014, http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/giving-and-happiness-041414.html

• Making a Life Worth Living - Neural Correlates of Well-Being, Heather L. Urry et al., Psychological Science, Volume 15—Number 6, 2004, https://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/web/pubs/2004/life_worth_living.pdf

• Why Interest Is Crucial To Your Success, Paul A. O'Keefe, Duke University News, April 16, 2014, http://today.duke.edu/2014/04/interest

• Gratitude, Not ‘Gimme,’ Makes for More Satisfaction, James Roberts and Jo-Ann Tsang, Baylor University News, Mar 31, 2014, http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=141629

• Tall People Get Paid More, Psychology Today, Mar 5, 2008, http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200310/tall-people-get-paid-more

• Why tall people make more money, Meg Donohue, CNN, Feb 2, 2007, http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/Careers/02/02/cb.tall.people/

• Taller People Earn More Money, Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience, July 11, 2009, http://www.livescience.com/5552-taller-people-earn-money.html

• Depressive symptoms are associated with unrealistic negative predictions of future life events, Daniel R. Strunket al., Behaviour Research and Therapy 44 (2006) 861–882, https://psychology.sas.upenn.edu/system/files/Strunk%20Behav%20Res%20Ther%202006%20Negative%20Predictions.pdf

• Relationship between goal discrepancy and depression, Schwartz, John L., Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol 42(2), Apr 1974, 309, http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1974-26850-001

• Being Unrealistic Means Being Unhappy, Live Life Satisfied, 2008, http://www.lifecoachinglls.com/site/79.asp

• Depression : cognitive, social, environmental and emotional factors, Susan Holttum, Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1991, http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/2654

• An Overview of Beck's Cognitive Theory of Depression in Contemporary Literature, Josiah P. Allen, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2003, http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/allen.html

• Depression Management, Barbara S. Alford and Harry F. Klinefelter, Counseling & Mental Health Center, The University of Texas at Austin,http://cmhc.utexas.edu/clearinghouse/files/DP015.pdf

• The Reticular Activating System, Bridge Across Consciousness, http://bridgeacrossconsciousness.net/mindmaps/Map19.pdf

• Attention Deficit Disorder and the Reticular Activating System, ADHD Information Library, http://newideas.net/adhd/neurology/reticular-activating-system

• Reticular Activating System - Neural Bases Of Behavior, http://psychology.jrank.org/human-behavior/pages/cmxyrsctao/reticular-activating-system-neural-bases.html

• Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind, Gerald Edelman, 1993

• Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge, Gerald Edelman, 2007