April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
6h 6m
English
book
Harvard Business Review Emotional Intelligence Collection (4 Books) (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Ellen Langer, Christina Congleton, Annie McKee
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The Science Behind the Smile
An interview with Daniel Gilbert by Gardiner Morse
Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert is widely known for his 2006 best seller, Stumbling on Happiness. His work reveals, among other things, the systematic mistakes we all make in imagining how happy (or miserable) we’ll be. In this edited interview with HBR’s Gardiner Morse, Gilbert surveys the field of happiness research and explores its frontiers.
HBR: Happiness research has become a hot topic in the past 20 years. Why?
Gilbert: It’s only recently that we realized we could marry one of our oldest questions—“What is the nature of human happiness?”—to our newest way of getting answers: science. Until just a few decades ago, the problem of happiness was mainly ...