Happiness

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

Author: Ed Diener, Robert Biswas-Diener
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 09/09/2008
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781405146616
ISBN10: 1405146613
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Emotions
- Psychology | Social Psychology
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Happiness

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.

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