Happiness: the science behind your smile
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Main Author: Nettle, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press 2005
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-212) and index
Comfort and joy -- Bread and circuses -- Love and work -- Worriers and enthusiasts -- Wanting and liking -- Panaceas and placebos -- A design for living
In a world obsessed by happiness, this is the first book to look thoroughly at what happiness is and how it works. Bringing together insights from psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, psychologist 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. We discover the evolutionary reason why negative thoughts are more powerful than positive ones. We read that happiness varies from country to country--the Swiss are much more happy than Bulgarians. Nettle discusses the brain systems underlying emotions and moods, ranging from serotonin, "the happiness chemical"; 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 feeling of benevolent calm and even euphoria.--From publisher description
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 216 p.)
ISBN:0191566713
9780191566714

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