TY - CHAP

T1 - Can Happiness Change?

T2 - 19th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology - IACCP2008

AU - Deutsch, Franziska

AU - Boehnke, Mandy

AU - Kühnen, Urlich

AU - Boehnke, Klaus

N1 - Conference code: 19

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - None of the major basic questions social sciences are concerned with can satisfyingly be answered from the perspective of one discipline alone. Each of them proposes theories and perspectives that make unique and important contributions. At the same time theoretical perspectives in general inevitably do have their blind spots. This fundamental insight was the reason for us to choose as the motto for the 19th IACCP congress held in Bremen in 2008 “Crossing borders – (Cross-) Cultural Psychology as an Interdisciplinary, Multi-Method Endeavor”. In this chapter we first want to illustrate this motto and our reasons for choosing it by reviewing recent research on one exemplary basic question of the social sciences: Can happiness change? We will cover findings across the social science disciplines in order to illustrate the benefits of interdisciplinary, multi-method investigations. This review will also reveal that the recent evidence violates traditional mono-disciplinary views on the respective question. After that, we will briefly introduce the contributions of this volume

AB - None of the major basic questions social sciences are concerned with can satisfyingly be answered from the perspective of one discipline alone. Each of them proposes theories and perspectives that make unique and important contributions. At the same time theoretical perspectives in general inevitably do have their blind spots. This fundamental insight was the reason for us to choose as the motto for the 19th IACCP congress held in Bremen in 2008 “Crossing borders – (Cross-) Cultural Psychology as an Interdisciplinary, Multi-Method Endeavor”. In this chapter we first want to illustrate this motto and our reasons for choosing it by reviewing recent research on one exemplary basic question of the social sciences: Can happiness change? We will cover findings across the social science disciplines in order to illustrate the benefits of interdisciplinary, multi-method investigations. This review will also reveal that the recent evidence violates traditional mono-disciplinary views on the respective question. After that, we will briefly introduce the contributions of this volume

KW - Psychology

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-0-9845627-2-5

SP - 3

EP - 11

BT - Rendering Borders Obsolete: Cross-Cultural and Cultural Psychology as an Interdisciplinary, Multi-Method Endeavor

A2 - Deutsch, Franziska

A2 - Boehnke, Mandy

A2 - Kühnen, Ulrich

A2 - Boehnke, Klaus

PB - Jacobs University Bremen

CY - Bremen

Y2 - 27 July 2008 through 31 July 2008

ER -