Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth

Ed Diener · Robert Biswas-Diener

Sep 2011 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

Utilizing sophisticated methodology and three decades of research by the world's leading expert on happiness, Happiness challenges the present thinking of the causes and consequences of happiness and redefines our modern notions of happiness.

• shares the results of three decades of research on our notions of happiness
• covers the most important advances in our understanding of happiness
• offers readers unparalleled access to the world's leading experts on happiness
• provides "real world" examples that will resonate with general readers as well as scholars

Winner of the 2008 PSP Prose Award for Excellence in Psychology, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers

Ratings and reviews

Simplistic rubbish. ``Negative emotions``,``Positive feelings`` - can it get any more reductive? Pathetic. `Negative` and `positive` are the lazy, impatient person`s way of lumping a wide variety of nuanced and multi-layered emotional experiences together without giving them the attention they deserve in order to be properly understood. Really, beyond the realm of the hard sciences, `positive` and `negative` are a massive cop-out and writers who resort to this cannot be taken very seriously.

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About the author

About the Authors

Ed Diener, PhD, is the Joseph R. Smiley Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is recognized as the world's foremost authority on the science of happiness. He is also a senior scientist for the Gallup Organization.

Robert Biswas-Diener, Program Director at the Center for Applied Positive Psychology (UK) and part-time lecturer at Portland State University, lives in Milwaukie, Oregon. He is known as the "Indiana Jones of positive psychology" for his research on subjective well-being in remote cultures around the world.