HAPPINESS
The Science Behind Your Smile
Daniel Nettle
Ocford Univ. Press, 2005
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Gain the latest insights from research on happiness
• Learn the power of thoughts
• Learn how people perceive happiness
• Understand the interaction and mechanism of drugs such as Prozac and serotonin on the brain
• Consider evolutionary, cultural and social research on why people are basically happy or unhappy, whether success can make us happy, and why some people are happier than others
• Understand the importance of social capital
• Learn ways to develop enduring sense of well-being
Daniel Nettle is Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Newcastle. His publications include Vanishing Voices (with Suzanne Romaine), Linguistic Diversity, and Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Nature.
7 CE credits; 216 pages
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