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The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us

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A founding father of behavioral economics reveals the hidden logic of negative emotions with a clarity and humor that make our worst feelings strangely easier to bear.

Every age has its illusions. Ours is that happiness is the natural human condition. Behavioral economist George Loewenstein argues the opposite: that our lives are inextricably shaped by the darker emotions we spend so much time trying to avoid.

In The Opposite of Happiness, he draws on decades of influential research—as well a...