Happiness

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MIT Press
14 February 2023

Psychology

Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness.

A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness.

What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it's elusive. As a concept-despite the plethora of pop psychology books on the subject-it's poorly understood. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psychologist Tim Lomas offers a concise and engaging overview of our current understanding of happiness. Lomas explains that although the field of positive psychology, which focuses on happiness, emerged only in the last twenty-five years, interest in the meaning of happiness goes back several millennia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, from philosophy and sociology to economics and anthropology, Lomas offers an expansive vision of what happiness means, exploring a significant range of experiential territory.

After considering such related concepts as wellbeing and flourishing, Lomas traces ideas of happiness from the ancient Buddhist notions of sukha and nirvana through Aristotle's distinction between hedonic and eudaemonic happiness to today's therapeutic and scientific approaches. He discusses current academic perspectives, looking at the breadth of happiness research across disciplines; examines the mechanics of happiness-the physiological, psychological, phenomenological, and sociocultural processes that make up happiness; explores the factors that influence happiness, both individual and social; and discusses the cultivation of happiness.

By: Tim Lomas
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262544207
ISBN 10: 0262544202
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 14 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Foreword ix 1 The Concept of Happiness 1 2 The Roots of Happiness 21 3 The Forms of Happiness 55 4 The Architecture of Happiness 97 5 The Drivers of Happiness 169 6 The Facilitation of Happiness 169 7 The Future of Happiness 213 Acknowledgments 239 Glossary 241 Notes 247 Further Reading 277 Index 279

Tim Lomas is a Research Affiliate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and the author of Translating Happiness- A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being. His work has been featured in Time, the New Yorker, Vox, Scientific American, and the Atlantic.

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