HAPPINESS
The Science Behind Your Smile
Daniel Nettle
Ocford Univ. Press, 2005
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The reader will gain the latest insights from research on happiness and to learn the power of thoughts, how people perceive happiness, the interaction and mechanism of drugs, such as Prozac, serotonin, D-fenfluramine, on the brain, and which remedies for unhappiness work best.
Nettle brings together the latest insights from psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy to shed light on the most basic of human desires. He takes into consideration evolutionary, cultural and social research in his examination of whether people are basically happy or unhappy, whether success can make us happy, and why some people are happier than others.
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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