"happyology" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "happy + -ology",
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          "ref": "1980, World Press Review - Volume 40, page 22",
          "text": "A leader in the multi-disciplinary field of happyology is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of the University of Chicago, a psychology author and educator who has hunted optimal experiences as though they were butterflies.",
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          "ref": "2008, Stephen F. Davis, William Buskist, 21st century psychology: a reference handbook - Volume 2, page 203",
          "text": "Positive psychology is not happyology. Although happiness is an important goal for humanity and a worthy topic of study, positive psychology does not focus exclusively on the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure.",
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          "ref": "2012, Moshe Zeidner, Gerald Matthews, Richard D. Roberts, What We Know about Emotional Intelligence",
          "text": "Although Seligman (e.g., Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2000) has distanced himself from this position, there is a danger of positive psychology degenerating into happyology, addressing a naıve belief that the only important thing to life is being happy.",
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          "ref": "2014, Joan Young, Encouragement in the Classroom, page 1416619216",
          "text": "This publication is not a cheat sheet, a “happyology” manual, or a Band-Aid that will fix that distressed kid and send him to a magical haven of learning.",
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        "The study of happiness."
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