Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think

Draws on insights from economics and psychology to argue that people must behave in happy ways to experience actual happiness, citing the importance of balancing a sense of purpose with environmental comfort while recognizing how to shift focus to overcome emotional biases.

Paul Dolan, PhD, is an internationally renowned expert on happiness, behavior, and public policy. He is currently Professor of Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has been a visiting research scholar at Princeton University with Professor Daniel Kahneman. Among various other roles, he advises the National Academy of Sciences on measurement issues in happiness research. He lives in Brighton, UK with his wife and two children.