The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom can enrich and transform our lives

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.

Author: Jonathan Haidt
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 12/26/2006
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780465028023
ISBN10: 0465028020
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Happiness
- Psychology | Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Science | Life Sciences | Neuroscience

About the Author
Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is a social psychologist whose research examines morality and the moral emotions. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind, and, most recently, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. He lives in New York.