Smile pretty: A cultural history of women and happiness – The truth we are trying not to know – Creating reality – The first question – A pretty girl is a girl with a smile on her face – Welcome to the nation of can-do optimists – The second question – Prescriptions for contentment
Grumpy nuns die young: Women and the science of joy – Happiness is a potato – The third question – Toward a general theory of positive emotions – When the smiley scientists meet – The fourth question – If you’re hokey and you know it, clap your hands – Drudge and flow – The fifth question – Extreme motherhood
A life of one's own: What we mean by happiness – Choose your own diagnosis – The sixth question – Money Magnetism – One day while I was doing laundry – The seventh question – Imperfectly – Listen.