The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom By Jonathan Haidt Professor of Psychology
University of Virginia
This is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations - to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives. It is a book about how to construct a life of virtue, happiness, fulfillment, and meaning.
“For the reader who seeks to understand happiness, my advice is: Begin with Haidt.” --Martin E. P. Seligman, Professor of psychology, University of Pennsylvania, author of Authentic Happiness
Useful features:
Using the Happiness Hypothesis to increase your happiness. (It's not a self-help book, but you can make it one)
Upcoming Talks I'm Giving:
--New Brunswick, NJ, Jan 18, 2012, Colloquium talk at Rutgers University, dept of psychology
--New Haven, CT, jan 24, 2012: Public lecture at Yale
--Charlottesville, VA, March 19, 2012, Miller Center, UVA, lecture on civility in politics
--Charlottesville, VA, March 20, 2012: Lecture on morality and politics (with David Brooks), at the Batten School of Public Policy, UVA
--Vancouver, BC, April 2 and 3: lectures at U. of British Columbia
--Seattle, WA, April 4 2012: talk on The Righteous Mind at the American Philosophical Association annual meeting.
--Seattle, WA, April 4 2012, 7:30-9pm, Seattle Town Hall
--Chicago, IL, May 25 or 26: Talk on The Righteous Mind, at Association for Psychological Science
