Think Again

graduates of universities in England and Wales
: Ofer Malamud, “Breadth Versus Depth: The
Timing of Specialization in Higher Education,” Labour 24 (2010): 359–90.
as people consider career choices and transitions
: Herminia Ibarra, Working Identity:
Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career (Boston: Harvard Business School Press,
2003).
entertain possible selves
: Herminia Ibarra, “Provisional Selves: Experimenting with Image and
Identity in Professional Adaptation,” Administrative Science Quarterly 44 (1999): 764–91.
the more people value happiness
: Iris B. Mauss et al., “Can Seeking Happiness Make People
Unhappy? Paradoxical Effects of Valuing Happiness,” Emotion 11 (2011): 807–15.
a risk factor for depression
: Brett Q. Ford et al., “Desperately Seeking Happiness: Valuing
Happiness Is Associated with Symptoms and Diagnosis of Depression,” Journal of Social and
Clinical Psychology 33 (2014): 890–905.
ruminate about why our lives aren’t more joyful
: Lucy McGuirk et al., “Does a Culture of
Happiness Increase Rumination Over Failure?,” Emotion 18 (2018): 755–64.

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happiness depends more on the frequency
: Ed Diener, Ed Sandvik, and William Pavot, “Happiness
Is the Frequency, Not the Intensity, of Positive versus Negative Affect,” in Subjective Well-Being:
An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ed. Fritz Strack, Michael Argyle, and Norbert Schwartz (New
York: Pergamon, 1991).
meaning is healthier than happiness
: Barbara L. Fredrickson et al., “A Functional Genomic
Perspective on Human Well-Being,” PNAS 110 (2013): 13684–89; Emily Esfahani Smith,
“Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness,” The Atlantic, August 1, 2013,
www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/meaning-is-healthier-than-happiness/278250
.