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“The most brilliant and lucid analysis of virtue and well-being in the entire literature of positive psychology. For the reader who seeks to understand happiness, my advice is: Begin with Haidt.” –Martin E.P. Seligman, University of Pennsylvania and author of Authentic Happiness
The Happiness Hypothesis is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations—to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives and illuminate the causes of human flourishing. Award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt shows how a deeper understanding of the world’s philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims—like “do unto others as you would have others do unto you,” or “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”—can enrich and transform our lives.Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Published: 12/26/2006
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465028023
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 1.00″ H x 9.00″ L x 6.00″ W
About the Author
Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is a social psychologist whose early research examined morality and the moral emotions. He now studies the effects of technology on children and on democracies. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind, and, most recently, The Anxious Generation. He lives in New York City.
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