ArticlePerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2022
Be Happy: Navigating Normative Issues in Behavioral and Well-Being Public Policy.
Article in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Empowering people with acquired brain injury to master their well-being: a thematic analysis of participant experience of an 8-week positive psychotherapy group.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Review
- Do Human Assertions Really Adhere Strictly to Norms? The Effect of Threatening Content in Information on Personalized Norm Perception.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Temporal associations between depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and satisfaction with family life: A 15-year study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- What's next for wellbeing science? Moving from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Machine-learning approaches to identify determining factors of happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective cohort study.BMJ open · 2022Observational
- Wellbeing, Whole Health and Societal Transformation: Theoretical Insights and Practical Applications.Global advances in health and medicine · 2022Article
- Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos Towards a Transdisciplinary Model of Wellbeing: An Invited Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Psychological science is increasingly influencing public policy. Behavioral public policy (BPP) was a milestone in this regard because it influenced many areas of policy in a general way. Well-being public policy (WPP) is emerging as a second domain of psychological science with general applicability. However, advocacy for WPP is criticized on ethical and political grounds. These criticisms are reminiscent of those directed at BPP over the past decade. This déjà vu suggests the need for interdisciplinary work that establishes normative principles for applying psychological science in public policy. We try to distill such principles for WPP from the normative debates over BPP. We argue that the uptake of BPP by governments was a function of its relatively strong normative and epistemic foundations in libertarian paternalism, or
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