Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile

Bringing together the latest insights from psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, Daniel Nettle sheds light on happiness, the most basic of human desires. Nettle examines whether people are basically happy or unhappy, whether success can make us happy, what sort of remedies to unhappiness work, why some people are happier than others, and much more.



The book is packed with fascinating observations. We discover the evolutionary reason why negative thoughts are more powerful than positive one...