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Happiness

The Science behind Your Smile

By Daniel Nettle

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| Paperback | 9780192805591

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Bringing together the latest insights from psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, Daniel Nettle sheds light on happiness, the most basic of human desires. Nettle examines whether people are basically happy or unhappy, whether success can make us happy, what sort of remedies to unhappiness
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Bringing together the latest insights from psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, Daniel Nettle sheds light on happiness, the most basic of human desires. Nettle examines whether people are basically happy or unhappy, whether success can make us happy, what sort of remedies to unhappiness
work, why some people are happier than others, and much more.
The book is packed with fascinating observations. We discover the evolutionary reason why negative thoughts are more powerful than positive ones. We read that happiness varies from country to country, for example, the Swiss are much more happy than Bulgarians. And we learn that, in a poll
among people aged 42 years old--peak mid-life crisis time--more than half rated their happiness an 8, 9, or 10 out of 10, and 90% rated it above 5. Nettle, a psychologist, is particularly insightful in discussing the brain systems underlying emotions and moods, ranging from serotonin, to mood
enhancing drugs such as D-fenfluramine, which reduces negative thinking in less than an hour; to the part of the brain that, when electrically stimulated, provides feelings of benevolent calm and even euphoria. In the end, Nettle suggests that we would all probably be happier by trading income or
material goods for time with people or hobbies, though most people do not do so.
Happiness offers a remarkable portrait of the feeling that poets, politicians, and philosophers all agree truly makes the world go round.

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  • Why the Swiss are on a roll

    Happiness by David Nettle OUP £9.99 In Dead Poet's Society, John Keating, the English teacher played by Robin Williams, arrives at a boarding school, pulls out the curriculum poetry textbook and distributes it among his class. At the point where his ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • I read some of the chapters carefully. Others where mere diversions on the same topics; and there was a third class that I simply skipped for being really annoying. But in general, the descriptions are not bad and there are some pieces of good advice in there that are worth a try for a chance.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 224 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0192805592
  • ISBN-13: 9780192805591
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Pub date: Aug 31, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1097 mm x 774 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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