Happiness The Science Behind Your Smile

Name: Happiness The Science Behind Your Smile
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ISBN: 9780192805591

ISBN-10: 0192805592

ISBN-13: 9780192805591

Edition: 2006

Authors: Daniel Nettle

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What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness?People all over the world, and throughout the ages, have thought about happiness, argued about its nature, and, most of all, desired it. But why do we have such a strong instinct to pursue happiness? And if happiness is good in itself, why haven't we simply evolved to be happier?Daniel Nettle uses the results of the latest psychological studies to ask what makes people happy and unhappy, what happiness really is, and to examine our urge to achieve it. Along the way we look at brain systems, at mind-altering drugs, and how happiness is now marketed…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.82" wide x 4.76" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Introduction



Comfort and joy



Bread and circuses



Love and work



Worriers and enthusiasts



Wanting and liking



Panaceas and placebos



A design for living


Further reading


Notes


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Index