03655nam 22008655 450 991078155170332120240102235724.01-283-36971-097866133697100-520-95142-510.1525/9780520951426(DE-B1597)519826(OCoLC)769342349(DE-B1597)9780520951426(MiAaPQ)EBC816153(CKB)2550000000074132(EXLCZ)99255000000007413220200424h20122012 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrEngineering Happiness A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life /Manel Baucells, Rakesh SarinBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2012]©20121 online resource (247 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26820-2 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Engineers on Happiness -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Science of Happiness -- Part I. Overview -- Part II. Laws of Happiness -- Part III. Engineering a Happier Life -- Notes -- IndexManel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences-including management science, psychology, and economics-they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world's religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone-regardless of background, profession, or aspiration-who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life.• Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive• Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice• Explores how to avoid happiness traps• Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday lifeHappinessSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culturebisacshanthropology.behavioral sciences.behavioral scientists.choose happiness.economics.emotions.everyday life.happiness research.happiness.joy.life building.life satisfaction.management science.mental health.modern life.nonfiction.popular culture.positive psychology.practical guide.psychology.self help.social researchers.social sciences.social scientists.sociology.therapists.therapy.wisdom.world literature.world religions.Happiness.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.152.4/2152.42Baucells Manel, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1538525Sarin Rakesh, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910781551703321Engineering Happiness3788602UNINA04511nam 2200817Ia 450 991097446510332120200520144314.09786613589668978128049443712804944339781400841608140084160710.1515/9781400841608(CKB)2670000000161775(EBL)878306(OCoLC)782923570(SSID)ssj0000623589(PQKBManifestationID)11348873(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623589(PQKBWorkID)10656215(PQKB)10278244(MiAaPQ)EBC878306(MdBmJHUP)muse37020(DE-B1597)447587(OCoLC)979755091(DE-B1597)9781400841608(Au-PeEL)EBL878306(CaPaEBR)ebr10546021(CaONFJC)MIL358966(PPN)187958998(Perlego)735443(FR-PaCSA)88833467(FRCYB88833467)88833467(EXLCZ)99267000000016177520120106d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe war of the sexes how conflict and cooperation have shaped men and women from prehistory to the present /Paul SeabrightCourse BookPrinceton Princeton University Pressc20121 online resource (254 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780691159720 0691159726 9780691133010 0691133018 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Prehistory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sex ans Salesmanship -- 3. Seduction and the Emotions -- 4. Social Primates -- Part II. Today -- 5. Testing for Talent -- 6. What Do Women Want? -- 7. Coalitions of the Willing -- 8. The Scarcity of Charm -- 9. The Tender War -- Notes -- References -- IndexAs countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In The War of the Sexes, Paul Seabright argues that there is--but first we must understand how the tension between conflict and cooperation developed in our remote evolutionary past, how it shaped the modern world, and how it still holds us back, both at home and at work. Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, Seabright shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation. The evolutionary niche--the long dependent childhood--carved out by our ancestors requires the highest level of cooperative talent. But it also gives couples more to fight about. Men and women became experts at influencing one another to achieve their cooperative ends, but also became trapped in strategies of manipulation and deception in pursuit of sex and partnership. In early societies, economic conditions moved the balance of power in favor of men, as they cornered scarce resources for use in the sexual bargain. Today, conditions have changed beyond recognition, yet inequalities between men and women persist, as the brains, talents, and preferences we inherited from our ancestors struggle to deal with the unpredictable forces unleashed by the modern information economy. Men and women today have an unprecedented opportunity to achieve equal power and respect. But we need to understand the mixed inheritance of conflict and cooperation left to us by our primate ancestors if we are finally to escape their legacy.Sex (Psychology)Sex differences (Psychology)Interpersonal relationsMenPsychologyWomenPsychologySex (Psychology)Sex differences (Psychology)Interpersonal relations.MenPsychology.WomenPsychology.306.709Seabright Paul119600MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974465103321The war of the sexes4340292UNINA