Engineering Happiness : A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life / Manel Baucells, Rakesh Sarin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baucells, Manel, Author.

Sarin, Rakesh, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, profession, or aspiration-who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life.• Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive• Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice• Explores how to avoid happiness traps• Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Engineers on Happiness

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Science of Happiness

Part I. Overview

Part II. Laws of Happiness

Part III. Engineering a Happier Life

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613369710

9781283369718

1283369710

9780520951426

0520951425

OCLC:

769342349