Name: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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Author: Jonathan Haidt
ISBN: 9780465028023

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Jonathan Haidt

Publisher

Basic Books

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN

0465028020

ISBN13

9780465028023

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom "

"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.

Jonathan Haidt

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Writer and social psychologist from New York University, Stern School of Business. Haidt's research examines the intuitive foundations of morality and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018, he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline in mental health of teenagers and the rise of political dysfunction.

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