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Engineering Happiness : a New Approach for Building a Joyful Life

Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences--including management science, psychology, and economics--they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world's religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone--regardless of background, profess
eBook, English, 2012
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2012
1 online resource (247 pages)
9780520951426, 9780520268203, 9786613369710, 0520951425, 0520268202, 6613369713
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface: Engineers on Happiness; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Science of Happiness; Part I: Overview; Chapter 1: Measuring Happiness; Chapter 2: Defining Happiness; Part II: Laws of Happiness; Chapter 3: The First Law of Happiness: Relative Comparison; Chapter 4: The Second Law of Happiness: Motion of Expectation; Chapter 5: The Third Law of Happiness: Aversion to Loss; Chapter 6: The Fourth Law of Happiness: Diminishing Sensitivity; Chapter 7: The Fifth Law of Happiness: Satiation; Chapter 8: The Sixth Law of Happiness: Presentism. Part III: Engineering a Happier LifeChapter 9: The Treasure of Happiness: Basic Goods; Chapter 10: Cumulative Comparison; Chapter 11: Reframing; Chapter 12: Living within the Laws of Happiness; Chapter 13: Building a Happier Life; Notes; Index
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