幸福科学:问题、探索、意义及展望

The Science of Happiness: Exploration and Contribution

幸福科学是一门有关人类幸福的综合性新兴学科,其研究领域横跨心理学、社会学、人类学、经济学、政治学、生命科学等诸多学科。这门科学研究如何帮助人们有效支配自身及外部的资源、协调自身与外部环境的关系以实现幸福,关注的问题主要包括与幸福有关的知觉和情绪体验、影响幸福的因素以及获得幸福的技能等。幸福科学的实证研究已经在幸福的神经机制、测量,幸福与情绪、金钱、亲密感、文化的关系等方面做出了卓有成效的探索。此外,幸福对于个体健康、创造性和生产力以及社会发展和稳定的促进作用都彰显出当前研究幸福科学研究的重要意义。

The last decade has witnessed an emergence of a new scientific discipline devoted to study human happiness.It units efforts from vast different disciplines such as psychology,sociology,anthropology,economics,political science and life science to explore common themes of understanding and promoting human well-being and human strengths.The primary goal of this approach is to help people achieving happiness by distributing resources effectively and improving harmony between individual psychology and social-cultural environments.There are mainly four sets of questions in this new area of research.The first set concerns the relationships between perceptual,cognitive,emotional experiences and human happiness.The second set investigates the factors benefits human well-beings and the skills of acquiring happiness.The third set are empirical studies that have discovered the neural and biological mechanisms of happiness,developed measurement of happiness and well-being,and untangled the complex relationships of happiness with money,intimacy and human culture.The fourth line of research are applied studies that focus on the positive effects of happiness on individual health,creativity,work productivity and social stability.All these endeavors would fascinate the rapid development of the science of happiness in China and beyond.