Humanistic Perspectives in Happiness Research

Part I Philosophy and spirituality in happiness research.- Contemporary philosophical perspectives on the dialogue between Seneca and Ortega y Gasset regarding human mortality and happiness.- Virtues as a resilience factor in the human pursuit for happiness.- Spirituality as a Factor of Resilience in the Witness of Adult Survivors of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse.- The critical limits of human condition, between hubris and aristeia.- Phenomenological approach to somatic evidence of depression, happiness, and radical hope.- Rediscovering the dynamic of happiness though feelings of self-gift and reciprocity.- Religion as the global horizon of human happiness.- Hope is happiness.- Part II Narratives of happiness in communication and media research.- Between utopia and dystopia: homo digitalis and happiness at a click.- The spectacle of happiness within the photographic idyll.- The communicative role of TV toy advertising in fostering children's happiness through play interaction.- Different representations of happiness in contemporary literary narratives: between the dramatic and the humorous.- The collective selfie: the dubious rhetoric of planetary happiness in celebrity environmental activism.- Part III Investigating happiness in individual and community contexts.- The sustainable happiness semester: a 100-day journal for students.- Education as protective factor in times of transformation and pandemic crisis.- Methodological complexity in the measurement(s) of happiness as a positive experience.- Happiness, wellbeing, and human development in unsettled times: what matters and why?.- Conclusion. 

Luísa Magalhães is Assistant Professor and Researcher in Communication Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and is especially interested in the relationship between children, media and market behaviours.

Maria José Ferreira Lopes is Assistant Professor and Researcher in Humanities at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and is particularly interested in the classical heritage and its influence on Portuguese authors.

Bruno Nobre is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. His main research interests are philosophy of physics, virtue ethics, and philosophy of religion.

João Carlos Onofre Pinto is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. His main research interests are phenomenology, noology, Spanish contemporary philosophy, and philosophy of religion.