Engineering happiness : a new approach for building a joyful life / Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baucells, Manel, 1966-

Contributor:

Sarin, Rakesh, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness.

Physical Description:

xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]

Summary:

Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting groundbreaking 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 the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences, they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness that can help anyone-regardless of background, profession, or aspiration-attain a more joyful life.

Offers a few major principles that explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive

Demonstrates that the essence of attaining happiness is choice

Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Over View

1 Measuring Happiness 11

2 Defining Happiness 27

Part II Laws of Happiness

3 The First Law of Happiness: Relative Comparison 47

4 Second Law of Happiness: Motion of Expectation 59

5 The Third Law of Happiness: Aversion to Loss 71

6 The Fourth Law of Happiness: Diminishing Sensitivity 78

7 The Fifth Law of Happiness: Satiation 96

8 The Sixth Law of Happiness: Presentism 111

Part III Engineering a Happier Life

9 The Treasure of Happiness: Basic Goods 127

10 Cumulative Comparison 138

11 Reframing 155

12 Living within the Laws of Happiness 180

13 Building a Happier Life 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520268203

0520268202

9780520268210

0520268210

OCLC:

748286949