Happier? provides the first history of the origins, development, and impact of the shift in how Americans - and now many around the world - consider the human condition. This change, which came about from the fusing of beliefs and knowledge from Eastern spiritual traditions, behavioral economics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and cognitive psychology, has been led by scholars and academic entrepreneurs, in play with forces such as neoliberalism andcultural conservatism, and a public eager for self-improvement. Ultimately, the book illuminates how positive psychology, one of the most…mehr
Happier? provides the first history of the origins, development, and impact of the shift in how Americans - and now many around the world - consider the human condition. This change, which came about from the fusing of beliefs and knowledge from Eastern spiritual traditions, behavioral economics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and cognitive psychology, has been led by scholars and academic entrepreneurs, in play with forces such as neoliberalism andcultural conservatism, and a public eager for self-improvement. Ultimately, the book illuminates how positive psychology, one of the most influential academic fields of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, infused American culture with captivating promises for a happier society.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel Horowitz is the Mary Huggins Gamble Foundation Chair and Professor of American Studies Emeritus at Smith College. He is a historian whose work focused on the history of consumer culture and social criticism in the U.S. during the 20th century. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Among his publications are a biography of Betty Friedan and three books on how American and European writers, from the 1830s to the late twentieth century wrestled with the onsequences of affluence.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Chapter 1: From Helplessness to Optimism: Martin Seligman and the Development of Positive Psychology * Chapter 2: Misery and Pleasure in the Origins of Happiness Studies, 1945-70 * Chapter 3: Crisis of Confidence? 1970-83: Providing the Groundwork for the Study of Positive Happiness * Chapter 4: Morning in America, 1984-98: Assembling Key Elements in the Study of Happiness and * Positivity * Chapter 5: Drawing (and Crossing) the Line: Academic and Popular Renditions of Subjective Well-Being, 1984-98 * Chapter 6: Building A Positively Happy World View * Chapter 7: The Future in Here: Positive Psychology Comes of Age * Chapter 8: The Business of Happiness * Coda: The Happiest Place on Earth
* Introduction * Chapter 1: From Helplessness to Optimism: Martin Seligman and the Development of Positive Psychology * Chapter 2: Misery and Pleasure in the Origins of Happiness Studies, 1945-70 * Chapter 3: Crisis of Confidence? 1970-83: Providing the Groundwork for the Study of Positive Happiness * Chapter 4: Morning in America, 1984-98: Assembling Key Elements in the Study of Happiness and * Positivity * Chapter 5: Drawing (and Crossing) the Line: Academic and Popular Renditions of Subjective Well-Being, 1984-98 * Chapter 6: Building A Positively Happy World View * Chapter 7: The Future in Here: Positive Psychology Comes of Age * Chapter 8: The Business of Happiness * Coda: The Happiest Place on Earth
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