Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Norman Bradburn

American Social Psychologist, Author, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at University of Chicago, Chair of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, President of American Association of Public Opinion Research, Chair of the Chapin Hall Center for Children Board of Directors

"Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other."