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Taylorism,
119
,
120
,
123
,
125
,
127
,
235

team-work,
251
,
256

technology/technologies

behavioural monitoring,
38

bodily-tracking devices,
240

computer programmes designed to influence feelings,
222

digital monitoring/tracking,
135
,
260

employee fitness-tracking programmes,
240

eye tracking,
72
,
97

facial scanning/face-scanning technology,
72
,
222
,
276

fitness-tracking ticket machine,
240

fMRI.
See
fMRI Health
2
.0

technologies,
135

health-tracking wristbands,
276

heart-rate monitoring,
25
,
37
,
137

impact of on happiness science,
10–11

impact of on market research,
73

impact of on psychology's claim to be objective science,
76

mind-reading technology,
33
,
75–6

mood tracking,
5
,
6
,
228

neurological monitoring,
38

physiological monitoring,
38

of psychological control,
274

reverence for in Watson's agenda,
91

scanning technology,
75–6

self-monitoring,
258

sentiment analysis/tracking,
6
,
221
,
223
,
261

for social network analysis,
204

in Wundt's lab,
84

telepathic brain-to-brain communication,
33

Tesco,
187
,
222

testosterone,
68

Thaler, Richard,
257

Thatcher, Margaret,
139
,
144

Thatcherism,
34
,
140

The Theory of Advertising
(Scott),
86

The Theory of Political Economy
(Jevons),
54
,
56
,
59

therapeutic management,
125
,
128

Thomas, William I.,
93

Thorndike, Edward,
284n14

time and motion studies,
118

Townsend, Anthony,
220

Tracey, Irene,
32

Track Your Happiness (app),
228

truBrain,
68

Twitter,
187
,
206
,
208
,
226
,
267
,
269–70

tyranny of sounds,
22
,
32
,
97
,
147
,
225
,
261

Uber,
188

UK Faculty of Public Health,
274

unemployment,
107
,
110–11
,
116
,
132
,
144
,
252

unhappiness,
9
,
249–55
,
269
,
272

Unilever,
134–5

Unitarianism,
47
,
48
,
50
,
55

universities, relationships of with businesses,
82

University of Chicago,
148

University of Michigan,
256

University of Pittsburgh,
226

University of Warwick (UK),
227

University of Zurich,
195

US military, on stress,
132

utilitarianism,
13
,
19
,
22
,
24
,
26
,
27
,
38
,
56
,
62
,
65
,
97
,
103
,
115
,
129
,
159
,
177
,
183
,
184–5
,
191
,
195
,
212
,
228
,
231
,
232
,
242
,
255
,
258
,
269
,
274

utility maximization, theory of,
62

Valium,
162

value,
52–5
,
67

value for money,
64

verbal behaviour,
96
,
223
,
224
,
253
,
261

Viner, Jacob,
149
,
152

viral marketing,
189

Virgin Pulse,
135

von Helmholtz, Hermann,
59
,
77

Walmart,
159

Walras, Léon,
54

Watson, John B.,
87
,
89–96
,
97
,
102
,
113
,
152
,
184
,
215
,
223
,
233
,
235
,
237
,
264

WEF (World Economic Forum),
1
,
3
,
6
,
107

well-being,
4
,
5
,
64
,
108
,
146
,
245
,
251
,
252
,
274

well-being optimization, science of,
136

Wellbutrin,
178

wellness,
112
,
113
,
127
,
129

Wharton Pennsylvania,
82

Whateley, Richard,
48
,
54

whiplash,
43–5
,
51
,
69

Whitehall Study,
288n34

Who Shall Survive?
(Moreno),
203

Wilkinson, Richard,
250

Williams, Raymond,
273

willingness to pay surveys,
64

Winch, Guy,
196

Winokur, George,
169

Winslow, Edward,
117

Wired
magazine,
185

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
263
,
264
,
265
,
266

The Word of the Father
(Moreno),
197
,
201

work,
55
,
106
,
110
,
116
,
122
,
128
,
133
,
252–3

work capability assessments,
110

workfare,
34
,
109
,
274

workplace disaffection,
108

workplace empowerment,
136

workplace happiness,
109
,
113

workshop system, of Chicago School of economics,
152

World Economic Forum (WEF),
1
,
3
,
6
,
107

World Health Organization,
107
,
126
,
167
,
172

World of Warcraft (game),
205
,
206
,
207

Wundt, Wilhelm,
77–81
,
83–4
,
86
,
87
,
91
,
217
,
257
,
265

Zak, Paul (Dr Love),
114
,
195
,
213
,
255
,
256

Žižek, Slavoj,
177

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