PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Jarden, Rebecca J., Joshanloo, Mohsen, Weijers, Dan, Sandham, Margaret, Jarden, Aaron J. (2022). Predictors of Life Satisfaction in New Zealand: Analysis of a National Dataset. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9), 5612; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095612
Munn, Nick & Weijers, Dan (2022). Corporate responsibility for the termination of digital friends, AI & Society, online first. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01276-z
Weijers, Dan (2021) Don't Miss the Well-Being Train: A Radical Proposal for Revolution in Positive Psychology. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:794065. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.794065
Joshanloo, Mohsen, Weijers, Dan, & Bond, Michael (2021). Cultural Religiosity Moderates the Relationship Between Perceived Societal Injustice and Satisfaction with One’s Life. Personality and Individual Differences, 179, 110891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110891. Publisher's site.
Joshanloo, Mohsen, Weijers, Dan (2019) A two-dimensional conceptual framework for understanding mental well-being. PLoS ONE, 14(3): e0214045. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214045
Weijers, Dan & Morrison, Philip, S. (2018). Wellbeing and Public Policy: Can New Zealand be a Leading Light for the Wellbeing Approach?, Policy Quarterly, 14(4): 3-12. The free official version.
Weijers, Dan & Keyser, Vadim (2016). The Varieties and Dynamics of Moral Repugnance: Prediction Markets and Betting on Matters of Life and Death, The Humanities and Technology Review, 35: 91-129. The free official version.
Joshanloo, Mohsen & Weijers, Dan (2016). Religiosity Moderates the Relationship between Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction across the Globe, Social Indicators Research, 128(2): 731-750. The official version
Joshanloo, Mohsen & Weijers, Dan (2016). Religiosity Reduces the Negative Influence of Injustice on Subjective Well-being: A Study in 121 Nations, Applied Research in Quality of Life, 11(2): 601-612. The official version
Joshanloo, Mohsen & Weijers, Dan, Jiang, Ding-Yu, et al. (2015). Fragility of Happiness Beliefs Across 15 National Groups. Journal of Happiness Studies, 16(5): 1185-1210. The official version
Weijers, Dan and Richardson, Jennifer (2014). Is the Repugnance about Betting on Terrorist Attacks Misguided? Ethics and Information Technology. The official version
Joshanloo, Mohsen & Weijers, Dan (2014). Does Thinking about the Meaning of Life Make you Satisfied with Life in a Religious and Globalised World? A 75-Nation Study, Journal of Psychology in Africa (special section on 'Meaning and Relational Well-being'), 24(1): 115-128. The official version
Temporarily (2015) republished in an open access collection of the top 3 most downloaded articles published in each Routledge Behavioral Sciences journal in 2014.
Weijers, Dan and Richardson, Jennifer (2014). A Moral Analysis of Effective Prediction Markets on Terrorism. International Journal of Technoethics, special issue: "Military Technoethics Beyond", 5(1): 28-43. Official Version
Republished as Weijers, Dan & Richardson, Jennifer (2014). A Moral Analysis of Effective Prediction Markets on Terrorism. In Human Rights and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (4 volumes). Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour. Information Resources Management Association (USA), Vol. 4, pp. 1720-1736. Official version.
Joshanloo, Mohsen & Weijers, Dan (2014). Aversion to happiness across cultures: A review of where and why people are averse to happiness, Journal of Happiness Studies, 15(3): 717-735. The official version
Weijers, Dan (2014). Optimistic Naturalism: Scientific Advancement and the Meaning of Life, Sophia, 53: 1-18. The official version
Weijers, Dan (2014). Nozick's Experience Machine is Dead, Long Live the Experience Machine!, Philosophical Psychology, 27(4): 513-535. The official version
Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2013). The Science of Happiness for Policymakers: An Overview, Journal of Social Research and Policy, 4(2). The free official version
Republished (In Spanish) as Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2016). The Science of Happiness for Policymakers: An Overview, in David Gómez-Álvarez and Víctor Ortiz Ortega (eds.), Policies and Subjective Wellbeing: Happiness in the Public Agenda. Banco de Desarrollo de America Latina and Ariel. Introduction and front stuff.
Weijers, Dan & Schouten, Vanessa (2013). An assessment of recent responses to the experience machine objection to hedonism, Journal of Value Inquiry, 47(4), 461-482. The official version
Weijers, Dan (2013). Intuitive Biases in Judgements about Thought Experiments: The Experience Machine Revisited, Philosophical Writings, 41(1): 17-31. The free official version
Weijers, Dan (2012). We Can Test the Experience Machine, Ethical Perspectives, 19(2), pp. 261-268.
Turton, Dan (2009). The Real Dirt on Happiness Studies: A Reply to 'The Unhappy thing about Happiness Economics', Real-world Economics Review, 49: 83-89. The free official version
Book Chapters
Munn, Nick and Weijers, Dan (2023). Friendship, love, and sex with droids in Solo: "How would that work?" "It works". In Eberl, J.T. & Decker, K. S. (eds.), Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes back: This is the Way. Wiley Blackwell: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, pp. 143-151. Official version. Last author version.
Weijers, Dan and Munn, Nick (2022), ’Human-AI Friendship: Rejecting the ‘appropriate sentimentality’ criterion’, in Vincent C. Müller (ed.), Philosophy and theory of artificial intelligence 2021 (SAPERE 63; Berlin: Springer), 209-223. Last author version.
Weijers, Dan (2021). Wellbeing and the four qualities of life. In A. C. Michalos (ed.), The Pope of Happiness: A Festschrift for Ruut Veenhoven. (pp. 277-290). Springer. Publisher's site. Last author version.
Weijers, Dan (2021). "Chapter 15. “Just wrong,” “disgusting,” “grotesque”: How to Deal with Public Rejection of New Potentially Life-saving Technologies", in Steff, R., Soare, S., & Burton, J. (eds.), Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State and War. Routledge, pp. 254-272. Publisher's site. Last author version.
Weijers, Dan (2020). Teaching well-being/quality of life from a philosophical perspective, in Graciela Tonon (ed.), Teaching Quality of Life in Different Domains. Springer, pp. 15-42. Publisher's site. My chapter.
Buscicchi, Lorenzo & Weijers, Dan (2019). The paradox of happiness: the more you chase it the more elusive it becomes, in John Watson (ed.), The Conversation Yearbook 2019: 50 standout articles from Australia’s top thinkers. Melbourne University Press, pp. 140-143. Publisher's site. Republishing of Buscicchi, Lorenzo & Weijers, Dan (2019). The Paradox of Happiness: The more you chase it the more elusive it becomes, The Conversation, 27 May. Link.
Joshanloo, Mohsen & Weijers, Dan (2019). Islamic Perspectives on Wellbeing, in Louise Lambert & Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi (eds.), Positive Psychology in the GCC Nations (and beyond): An Introduction to Research, Policy, and Practice. Springer, pp. 237-256.
Weijers, Dan (2018). Prediction Markets, in Robert W. Kolb (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society: 2nd edition. Sage, pp. 2716-2718.
Weijers, Dan & DiSilvestro, Russell (2017). The morality of experience machines for palliative and end of life care, in Mark Silcox (ed.), Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds. Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 183-201. Publisher's site.
Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2017). Wellbeing Policy, in Mike Slade, Lindsay Oades & Aaron Jarden (eds.), Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health. Cambridge University Press, pp. 24-34. (This chapter reproduces some of the material from Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron. The Science of Happiness for Policymakers: An Overview). Publisher's site.
Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2017). The International Journal of Wellbeing: An Open Access Success Story, in Rajiv Jhangiani & Robert Biswas-Diener (eds.), Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science. Ubiquity Press, pp. 181-194. Free official version of whole book.
Michalos, Alex & Weijers, Dan (2017). Western Historical Traditions of Well-Being, in Richard Estes and Joseph Sirgy (eds.), The Pursuit of Well-Being: The Untold Global History, Springer, pp. 31-57. Publisher's site
Weijers, Dan (2016). Prediction Markets as an Alternative to One More Spy, in Jai Galliott & Warren Reed (eds.), Ethics and the Future of Spying: Technology, Intelligence Collection and National Security, Routledge, pp. 80-92. Publisher's site.
Weijers, Dan (2011). The Experience Machine Objection to Hedonism, in Just the Arguments, Edited by Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 229-231. Link
Weijers, Dan (2011). Reality Doesn't Really Matter, in Inception and Philosophy, Edited by D. Kyle Johnson, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 92-107. Link
Weijers, Dan, Eng, David & Das, Ramon (2010). Sharing the Responsibility of Dealing with Climate Change: Interpreting the Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities, in Public Policy: Why Ethics Matters, Edited by Jonathan Boston, Andrew Bradstock & David Eng, ANU E Press, pp. 141-158. Link
Other Peer-Reviewed Academic Publications
Munn, Nick & Weijers, Dan (2021). Good friendships improve our lives. But can virtual friendships be good? In Kommers, P. & Macedo, M. (eds.), Proceedings of the ICT, society, and human beings 2021 conference, pp. 238-241. Link
Weijers, Dan & Turton, H. Joseph (2021). "Environmentally smart contracts for artists using non-fungible tokens," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 2021, pp. 1-4, https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS52410.2021.9629203
Weijers, Dan & Munn, Nick (2021). Technology as cause of and solution to the empathy problem. In Nyíri, K. (ed.), The Sherry Turkle Miracle. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, pp. 20-21. Available from: http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/STM/Booklet.pdf
Weijers, Dan (2013). Prediction Markets, Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT. (This article won a £500 prize from the Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT). Link
van der Meer, Larah & Weijers, Dan (2013). Educational psychology research on children with developmental disabilities using expensive ICT devices, Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT. (This article won a £500 prize from the Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT). Link
Weijers, Dan (2011). Hedonism, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available from: http://www.iep.utm.edu/hedonism/
Policy White Papers
Weijers, Dan & Mukherjee, Udayan (2016). Living Standards, Wellbeing, and Public Policy, The New Zealand Treasury. Available from: http://www.treasury.govt.nz/government/longterm/fiscalposition/2016/ltfs-16-bg-lswpp.pdf
Weijers, Dan (2012). National Accounts that Make Governments More Efficient by Making Them More Accountable. Available from the official Bhutanese government's website for the UN meeting on 'Happiness and Wellbeing: Defining a New Economic Paradigm'. Link
Short Articles and Blog Posts
Jarden, Rebecca, J., Jarden, Aaron, & Weijers, Dan (2022). Life satisfaction in New Zealand. Scholarly Community Encyclodpedia. Link. (Based on our: Predictors of Life Satisfaction in New Zealand: Analysis of a National Dataset. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9), 5612).
Weijers, Dan, Munn, Nick, Buscicchi, Lorenzo (2021). Happy Endings: Does size or shape matter most? Daily Philosophy, 23 June 2021. Link
Munn, Nick, Buscicchi, Lorenzo, Weijers, Dan (2021). Selling Happiness, One Chump at a Time. Daily Philosophy, 16 June 2021. Link
Munn, Nick, Buscicchi, Lorenzo, Weijers, Dan (2021). The Utility Monster is... other people! Daily Philosophy, 9 June 2021. Link
Buscicchi, Lorenzo, Weijers, Dan, Munn, Nick (2021). Enlightened Self-interest: Friends with Benefits. Daily Philosophy, 2 June 2021. Link
Buscicchi, Lorenzo, Weijers, Dan, Munn, Nick (2021). Psychological Hedonism: You Know You Want It. Daily Philosophy, 26 May 2021. Link
Weijers, Dan, Munn, Nick, Buscicchi, Lorenzo (2021). Simulating pleasure: If it feels good, does it matter whether it’s real? Daily Philosophy, 19 May 2021. Link
Weijers, Dan, Munn, Nick, & Buscicchi, Lorenzo (2021). Is pleasure good? Daily Philosophy, 12 May 2021. Link
Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2021). The International Journal of Wellbeing: Ten years on and the next ten years. International Journal of Wellbeing, 11(1), 1-7. Link
Ulatowski, Joe, Weijers, Dan, & Sytsma, Justin (2020). Corpus Methods in Philosophy, The Brains Blog, 15 December 2020. Link
Weijers, Dan & Munn, Nick (2019). Almonds don’t lactate, but that’s no reason to start calling almond milk juice, The Conversation, 7 August. Link
Buscicchi, Lorenzo & Weijers, Dan (2019). The Paradox of Happiness: The more you chase it the more elusive it becomes, The Conversation, 27 May. Link
Weijers, Dan (2016). Privileging our future hedonic states, The Dance of Reason, 26 September. Link
Weijers, Dan (2015). When the science of happiness meets public policy, can freedom increase?, The Dance of Reason, 28 September. Link
Weijers, Dan (2015). Will we be faithful to our philosophical methodology or our moral values? The experience machine thought experiment in an increasingly virtual world, The Dance of Reason, 2 August. Link
Weijers, Dan (2015). To Push or Not to Push? Should that be the Question?, The Dance of Reason, 15 February. Link
Weijers, Dan (2015). Happy Valentine's Day Baby!, The Dance of Reason, 14 February. Link
Weijers, Dan (2014). The Happiness of Philosophers, The Dance of Reason, 19 October. Link
Weijers, Dan (2014). Does Philosophy Make Us Happy? The Dance of Reason, 12 October. Link
Weijers, Dan (2014). Science, technology, and the meaning of life, The Dance of Reason, 26 February. Link
Weijers, Dan (2011). National Accounts of Well-Being: What Should We Put in the Census?, Social Europe Journal, 15 February 2011. Link
Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2011). Wipe that Smile Off Your Face, The Philosopher's Magazine, 52: 53-58. Link
Weijers, Dan, Jarden, Aaron, & Powdthavee, Nattavudh (2011). Promoting Research on Wellbeing, International Journal of Wellbeing, 1(1): 1-3. Link
Weijers, Dan (2010). A Warning to Policy-Makers: What Exactly is Well-Being Anyway?, Social Europe Journal, 10 September 2010. Link
Reviews
Weijers, D., Jarden, A., Angner, E., Burns, G., Chadwick, E., Jose, P., Joshanloo, M., Tarragona, M., & Thin, N. (2013). A Review of The Oxford Handbook of Happiness, International Journal of Wellbeing, 3(2), 213-228. Link
Morrison, Philip & Weijers, Dan (2012). Wellbeing and Public Policy Conference: A Report on the June 2012 Conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Available from the Wellbeing and Public Policy website. Link
Morrison, Philip & Weijers, Dan (2012). Wellbeing in Wellington: A report on the June 2012 Wellbeing and Public Policy Conference, Policy Quarterly, 8(4), 51-55.
Weijers, Dan (2010). Bok, Derek, The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being, New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology Newsletter. Link
Weijers, Dan (2010). Bok, Derek, The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being, Metapsychology Online. Link
Turton, Dan (2010). Hanson, Rick, Buddha's Brain: The Practical neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom, Metapsychology Online. Link
Turton, Dan (2009). Kraut, Richard. What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being, Metapsychology Online. Link
Turton, Dan (2009). Kringelbach, Morten, The Pleasure Center: Trust Your Animal Instincts, Metapsychology Online. Link
Turton, Dan (2008). Frey, Bruno, Happiness: A Revolution in Economics, Metapsychology Online. Link
Turton, Dan (2007). Feldman, Fred, Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties and Plausibility of Hedonism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 85(2): 338-340. Link