What A Feeling! Research & Reference

This is a work in progress – partly because some completely insane person (that would be me) sorted out her books and managed to accidentally lose (did they go to the op-shop by mistake?) ALL her reference books. Yes I know! Even the one signed by Brene Brown that said “Toni, let’s change the world together!”

Check back in later if the info you need isn’t here. In the meantime I’m buying new books and trying to fathom who was in charge of my mind and body when this disaster happened.

Chapter 1: CHASING THE GOOD LIFE

The ‘Grant Study’: More information about Harvard’s ‘Grant Study,’ also known as ‘The Study of Adult Development, can be found on this website. You’ll also be able to watch an interview with as well as a TED talk by the current study director Dr Robert Waldinger (which includes the quote from him I mentioned).

Books mentioned:

‘Triumphs of Experience’ by George Vaillant

‘The Happiness Advantage’ by Prof Shawn Achor

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Chapter 3: THE QUESTIONS

p 33: ‘To quote Paul Waldman of e Week..’ Link to Public Integrity Iraq War Card

p 34: Teens and Parents: Information found in ‘Mistakes Were Made’ on page 78

Book quoted from:

‘Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me’ Tavris and Aronson

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Chapter 4: BLINDSPOTS

p 39 – 41: How we see – please refer to Chapter 10 of Dr Medina’s book ‘Brain Rules’

p 41: Shawn Achor’s book ‘Before Happiness’

p 41: Anil Seth TED talk – How Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality

p 46: ‘You Are Not So Smart’ podcast episode 101 ‘Naïve Realism’

p 47 – 49 : ‘False Consensus Effect’ research by Prof Lee Ross, David Green and Pamela House published Journal of Social Psychology, 1977.

A clever little Prezi presentation by Pablo Villatoro explains the Sandwich Board experiment in pictures.

p 51: Heavens Gate: This link to chapter six, The Need to Justify Our Actions, of the Psyc241 Textbook offers further reading on Heaven’s Gate and other interesting experiments regarding self-justification.

This 1997 article by People Weekly gives an overview of each of the Heaven’s Gate members who died and shows they were ordinary, smart people.

Books mentioned:

‘Brain Rules’ by John Medina

‘The Happiness Advantage’ Shawn Achor

‘Before Happiness’ by Shawn Achor

Back to the Great Big Bucket

Chapter 5: THE ASSASSIN OF LOVE

This chapter quotes extensively from ‘Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)’ by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aaronson.

p 62: ‘Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)’ on page 7

p 63: Conversations With Richard Fidler interview with Graeme Long can be found here.

p 64: Edward James and Rika Kohler study (1259)‘The Effects of Plausibility on the Learning of Controversial Statements’ Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 57, pp 315-320