Research Catalog

Title

Happiness by design : change what you do, not how you think / Paul Dolan, PhD ; foreword by Daniel Kahneman, PhD.

Author

Dolan, Paul, 1968-

Publication

New York, New York : Hudson Street Press, 2014.

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Details

Description

xx, 235 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "Pretty much all the advice about happiness we have heard revolves around one basic assumption: that we can think ourselves happier. But in HAPPINESS BY DESIGN, behavior and happiness expert Paul Dolan reveals that the key to being happy does not lie in changing how we think--it's changing what we do"--
• Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy. Using what Dolan calls deciding, designing, and doing, we can overcome the biases that make us miserable and redesign our environments to make it easier to experience happiness, fulfilment, and even health.

Subject

• Happiness > Psychological aspects
• SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness
• PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology
• Happiness > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-227) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Stuttering into happiness -- Part : DEVELOPING HAPPINESS. What is happiness? ; Happiness as evaluation ; Happiness as feelings ; The pleasure-purpose principle ; The PPP for life -- What do we know about happiness? Experience sampling ; German days ; American episodes ; Other evidence on happiness ; The measure matters -- What causes happiness? From widgets to happiness ; Above and below the surface ; Behavioral spillovers ; The shifting sands of attention ; Attending to happiness -- Why aren't we happier? Mistaken desires ; Mistaken projections ; Mistaken beliefs ; Reallocating attention -- Part 2: DELIVERING HAPPINESS. Deciding happiness. Pay attention to your own feedback ; Pay attention to the feedback of others ; Don't try too hard ; Happier by deciding -- Designing happiness. Priming ; Defaults ; Commitments ; Social norms ; Designing habits ; Happier by designing -- Doing happiness. Pay attention to what you are doing ; Pay attention to who you are doing it with ; Don't get distracted ; Happier by doing -- Decide, design, and do. Dither less ; Distribute more ; Efficient production.

ISBN

• 9781594632433 (hardback)
• 159463243X (hardback)

LCCN

^^2014004748

OCLC

• 861208313
• SCSB-12534037

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library