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행복학을 과학 아래서 연구한 첫 심리학자, 에드 디너 교수의 '행복의 역설'. 이 책은 진정 성공하고 싶다면 조금 불행한 행복을 원하라고 말한다. 저자는 기존에 우리가 알고 있던 완벽한 행복감은 실현이 불가능할 뿐 아니라 장기적으로 개인에게 득보다는 실을 더 많이 가져다준다고 말한다. 즉,‘모나리자의 미소’처럼 83퍼센트의 기쁨과 17퍼센트의 슬픔이 조화롭게 균형을 이룰 때 성공적인 삶을 살 수 있다는 것.

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

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

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Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth
Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener

Ed Diener, J. R. Smiley Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, is the world's foremost authority on the science of happiness. His son, Robert Biswas-Diener, has been called the "Indiana Jones of psychology" because of his data collection adventures around the world. In this fascinating book the father and son team presents scienti??? c evidence revealing that happiness is not overrated, and is good for people's health, social relationships, job success, longevity, and altruism. Happy people even tend to earn higher incomes. But people can be too happy for maximum success, and the pursuit of ultra-happiness can be detrimental. They advocate an optimal level of happiness in which people do not seek euphoria, but pursue life satisfaction, meaning, and frequent positive emotions, with recognition that some negative emotions are an integral part of a happy life. The authors describe why happiness alone is not enough; people need to be happy for the right reasons. They describe the new concept of Psychological Wealth, which extends beyond material riches, and beyond popular concepts like emotional intelligence and social capital.

The authors describe the evidence on what causes happiness. Although there are genetic in??? uences on happiness, these genetics do not produce an unchanging happiness "set point." The book describes the authors' data collection around the globe that shows that people are not necessarily "born" happy, but can and do change their levels of happiness.

This book reveals that high income is correlated with happiness, although excessive materialism is toxic to it. The important factor is not so much what one can buy with one's income, but one's attitudes to it. The authors provide a model for a happy approach to life, based on Attention, Interpretation, and Memory (AIM). Diener and Biswas-Diener suggest that happiness is about a way of traveling, learning to react in positive ways to the world, rather than simply being a destination or set of circumstances.

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Part I	Understanding True Wealth	p. 1
1	    Psychological Wealth: The Balanced Portfolio	p. 3
2	    Two Principles of Psychological Wealth	p. 13
Part II	Happy People Function Better	p. 27
3	    Health and Happiness	p. 29
4	    Happiness and Social Relationships: You Can''t Do Without Them	p. 47
5	    Happiness at Work: It Pays To Be Happy	p. 68
Part III	Causes of Happiness and Genuine Wealth	p. 89
6	    Can Money Buy Happiness?	p. 91
7	    Religion, Spirituality, and Happiness	p. 112
8	    The Happiest Places on Earth: Culture and Well-Being	p. 127
9	    Nature and Nurture: Is There a Happiness Set Point, and Can You Change It?	p. 145
10	    Our Crystal Balls: Happiness Forecasting	p. 165
11	    Take AIM on Happiness: Attention, Interpretation, and Memory	p. 182
Part IV	Putting It All Together	p. 205
12	    Yes, You Can Be Too Happy	p. 207
13	    Living Happily Ever After	p. 221
14	    Measuring Psychological Wealth: Your Well-Being Balance Sheet	p. 234
Epilogue: About the Science of Happiness	p. 244
Further Reading	p. 254
References	p. 256
Index	p. 278