Happiness: Lessons from a New SciencePenguin, 27.06.2006 - 320 Seiten There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in Happiness is this: If we really wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have to see clearly what conditions generate happiness and then bend all our efforts toward producing them. That is what this book is about-the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it. Until recently there was too little evidence to give a good answer to this essential question, but, Layard shows us, thanks to the integrated insights of psychology, sociology, applied economics, and other fields, we can now reach some firm conclusions, conclusions that will surprise you. Happiness is an illuminating road map, grounded in hard research, to a better, happier life for us all. |
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... activity in the brain's left-hand side behind the forehead; people feel depressed if that part of their brain goes dead. Bad feelings are connected with brain activity behind the right-hand side of the forehead; when that part of the ...
... activity to activity. I will give only one example, from a study of around nine hundred working women in Texas.6 They were asked to divide the previous working day into episodes, like a film: typically they identified about fourteen ...
... activities, it is mainly affected by our basic temperament and attitudes and by key features of our life situation— our relationships, our health, our worries about money. Brainwaves. can be properly compared between people. To reassure ...
... activity in different parts of the brain by putting electrodes all over the scalp and reading the electrical activity. These EEG measurements are then related to the feelings people report. When people experience positive feelings ...
... activity between the left and right sides of the forebrain. This varies closely with many measures of selfreported mood. And one further finding is interesting. When different people are exposed to good experiences (like pleasant film ...
Inhalt
If youre so rich why arent you happy? | |
So what does make us happy? | |
Whats going wrong? | |
Does economics have a clue? | |
How can we tame the rat race? | |
Can we afford to be secure? | |
Can mind control mood? | |
Do drugs help? | |
CHAPTER 14 Conclusions for todays world | |
My thanks | |
Sources of tables charts and diagrams | |
Can we pursue a common good? | |
What Can Be Done? | |
Is that the goal? | |
List of annexes | |
References | |
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition) Richard Layard Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2006 |
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition) Richard Layard Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2011 |