Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward
10 best books like Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward (James O. Prochaska): Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile, Choices, Values, and Frames, Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide, Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, The Happiness Manifesto
Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive
| Author | Barbara L. Fredrickson |
| ISBN | 0307393739 |
World renowned researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson gives you the lab-tested tools necessary to create a healthier, more
vibrant, and flourishing life through a process she calls "the upward spiral." You’ll discover:
•What positivity is, and why it needs to be heartfelt to be effective
•...
Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
| Author | Tom Rath |
| ISBN | 1595620400 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath (more than 2 million copies sold in the U.S.) and bestselling author Jim Harter, Ph.D., a wide-ranging book (based on a 150-country Gallup study) that will help readers improve their careers, relationships, finances, physical health and community...
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
| Author | Olivia Fox Cabane |
| ISBN | 1591844568 |
What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What you'll...
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| ISBN | 0521284147 |
The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics,...
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
| Author | Richard Layard |
| ISBN | 0143037013 |
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence...
Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
| Author | Daniel Nettle |
| ISBN | 0192805592 |
Bringing together the latest insights from psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, Daniel Nettle sheds light on happiness, the most basic of human desires. Nettle examines whether people are basically happy or unhappy, whether success can make us happy, what sort of remedies to unhappiness work,...
Choices, Values, and Frames
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| ISBN | 0521627494 |
Choices, Values, and Frames presents an empirical and theoretical challenge to classical utility theory, offering prospect theory as an alternative framework. Extensions and applications to diverse economic phenomena and to studies of consumer behavior are discussed. The book also elaborates...
| Author | Caroline Adams Miller |
| ISBN | 1402762593 |
The passion for life lists has spawned an industry that includes thoughtful experts such as Caroline Miller, a life coach and motivational book author, and Dr. Michael Frisch, a positive psychology coach and clinical psychologist at Baylor University. Working together, they have fashioned the...
Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier
| Author | Robert A. Emmons |
| ISBN | 0618620192 |
The first major study of gratitude that shows how “wanting what we have” can measurably change people’s lives.
Did you know that there is a crucial component of happiness that is often overlooked? Robert Emmons—editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology—examines...
Synopsis: Much of modern life is based on the assumption that happiness comes from economic prosperity. Many -- politicians, media and citizens alike -- seem to assume the goal of government is to keep the economy moving. Here, Nic Marks argues that the blind pursuit of economic growth has created an...
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| ISBN | 0130505188 |
From Wikipedia:
Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, notable for his work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology.
With Amos Tversky...
Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| ISBN | 0871544237 |
The nature of well-being is one of the most enduring and elusive subjects of human inquiry. Well-Being draws upon the latest scientific research to transform our understanding of this ancient question. With contributions from leading authorities in psychology, social psychology, and neuroscience,...
The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
Is the rampant overuse of video games and online porn causing the demise of guys?
In their new TED Book, Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo— leader of the famous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment—and co-author Nikita Duncan suggest that just might be the case. Based on survey responses from 20,000 men,...
Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere
Traditional educators, classrooms, and brick-and-mortar schools are no longer necessary to access information. Instead, things like blogs and wikis, as well as remote collaborations and an emphasis on 'critical thinking' skills are the coins of the realm in this new kingdom. Yet the national dialogue...
The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance
| Author | Tony Schwartz |
| ISBN | 1439127662 |
"The Way We're Working Isn't Working "is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.
Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity,...
