Book description
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
Ed Diener. Ph. D., is the Joseph R. Smiley
Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. 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.
