Chapter 1: An Introduction to (Supposedly) Good Life Chapter 2: Demonized Emotions and Tortured Bodies in the Age of Scientific Progress Rationalizing the Demonization and Murder of Witches Killing the Healers Ridding the World of Women with "Passions" Chapter 3: The Survival of the Happiest Who (Get To) Control the Resources and Procreation Alternatives to Scientific Pollyannaism Found on the Galapagos The Survival of the Happiest Darwin's Happy Housewives Chapter 4: Eugenic Scientific Utopias Filled with Socially Engineered Happy Productive People The Utopian Vissions of Eugenic Racial Betterment Happy Eugenic Brains and Resilient Germo-Plasms The Scientific Efforts to Rid the World of the "Evolutionary Unfit" Happy "Mothers of the Race" The Advanced Western Sciences of Eugenic Human Betterment Tales of Finding Genetic Origins of Beauty and the Best On Testing Intelligence and Finding (Un)Happiness Chapter 5: From the Science of Human Betterment to the Science of Behavioral Control The Eugenic Roots of American Behaviorism Darwinism and the Sciences of Emotional Control The Myths and the Horrors of "Little Albert" Experiments The Parenting Utopias and the "Dangers of Too Much Mother Love" Scientific Sadistic Pollyanaism: The Survivor Stories Chapter 6: Scientific Pollyannaism of Authentic Happiness, Learned Optimism, Flow and the Empirically Correct Positivity Ratios The Exotic Resort Solutions to Re-Creating Scientific Pollyannaism Torture and the Contemporary Scientific Pollyannaism Building a New Religion from the Sciences of Happiness "Top Notch Research" of Positive Psychology More Secrets and Lies in Positive Psychology Funding of New Scientific Pollyannaism Happy Hateful States Winning the "Glad Games" by Ethnocentric Nationalism and Late Stage Capitalism Raising Pollyannas: The Sciences of Making Children Orphan Their Feelings Mythic Evolutionary Origins of Pollyannaism Happiness is (Once Again) Mostly in Your Genes The "Hard" Sciences Behind Contemporary Scientific Pollyannaism Chapter 7: On Being Pollyanna about Sciences The Discovery of Scientism Scientific or Scientistic Pollyannaism From The Hammer of Witches to "Race Realism" The Pioneering Funding of Scientific Racist Pollyannaism How Pollyannas Become Enlightened Through Sciences Hopeful Sciences of White Supremacy and White Nationalism On Racist "Shameful Sciences" and the Empirical "Pretext" for Patriarchal "Happiness" Chapter 8: Critics and Critiques of Scientific Pollyannaism The Over-Emotional "Shrew" Whom Socrates Could Not "Break" Chesterton on Scientific Eugenics As "Our Happy Holiday in the Land of Nonsense" "The Actual Unhappiness of the American Housewife" and the "Feminist Killjoy" The Political Use of Human Emotions: The Case of Neo-Liberalism "Psytizens" and the "Happiness Industry" Chapter 9: Re-telling the Story of Orphaned Girl Named Pollyanna.
Scientific Pollyannaism : From Inquisition to Positive Psychology