Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution:
  REF KF.4548.E53: history and important court decisions that surround the Constitution
• Encyclopedia of Community:
  REF HM.756.E53: the impact of communities of life and society.
• Encyclopedia of Psychology:
  REF BF31.E53: scholarly articles about important psychologists and topics in the field.
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
  REF B51.R68: philosophical interpretations of happiness
• West’s Encyclopedia of American Law:
  REF KF.154.W47: legislative actions about topics in American society.

Books

Try a keyword search on happiness AND _________(your topics)

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

• Business Source Complete:  effects of business, marketing, consumerism
• Communication and Mass Media: role of media and advertising
• PsycInfo: psychological concepts and outcomes
• Sociological Abstracts: Literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

• The Happiness Formula:
  Features video clips and stories on levels of happiness throughout our lives, and happiness and public policy, politics, diversity, the use of cyberspace
• Pew Research Center: Are We Happy Yet?
  Facts and statistics derived from a 2005 study of Americans aged 18+.
• Journal of Happiness Studies: available from 2000- present on the library’s e-journal list
  New peer-reviewed journal with research studies
• Scientific American Frontiers: Worried Sick
  A companion to the PBS series about the effects of stress on health and happiness