{"product_id":"happiness-isbn-9780262544207","title":"Happiness","description":"\u003cb\u003eA concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it’s elusive. As a concept—despite the plethora of pop psychology books on the subject—it’s poorly understood. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psychologist Tim Lomas offers a concise and engaging overview of our current understanding of happiness. Lomas explains that although the field of positive psychology, which focuses on happiness, emerged only in the last twenty-five years, interest in the meaning of happiness goes back several millennia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, from philosophy and sociology to economics and anthropology, Lomas offers an expansive vision of what happiness means, exploring a significant range of experiential territory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAfter considering such related concepts as wellbeing and flourishing, Lomas traces ideas of happiness from the ancient Buddhist notions of sukha and nirvana through Aristotle’s distinction between hedonic and eudaemonic happiness to today’s therapeutic and scientific approaches. He discusses current academic perspectives, looking at the breadth of happiness research across disciplines; examines the mechanics of happiness—the physiological, psychological, phenomenological, and sociocultural processes that make up happiness; explores the factors that influence happiness, both individual and social; and discusses the cultivation of happiness.Series Foreword ix\u003cbr\u003e1 The Concept of Happiness 1\u003cbr\u003e2 The Roots of Happiness 21\u003cbr\u003e3 The Forms of Happiness 55\u003cbr\u003e4 The Architecture of Happiness 97\u003cbr\u003e5 The Drivers of Happiness 169\u003cbr\u003e6 The Facilitation of Happiness 169\u003cbr\u003e7 The Future of Happiness 213\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 239\u003cbr\u003eGlossary 241\u003cbr\u003eNotes 247\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading 277\u003cbr\u003eIndex 279Tim Lomas is a Research Affiliate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and the author of \u003ci\u003eTranslating Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been featured in \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301413179621,"sku":"NP9780262544207","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544207.jpg?v=1767728680","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/happiness-isbn-9780262544207","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}