Spotykayas‘ o schast‘ye (kratkoye izlozheniye)

Avtor knigi — professor psikhologii Garvardskogo universiteta, spetsializiruyushchiysya v oblasti sotsial‘noy psikhologii. Za svoi nauchnyye issledovaniya i mnogoletnyuyu prepodavatel‘skuyu deyatel‘nost‘ Deniel‘ Gilbert udostoyen osoboy premii za vklad v nauku, kotoraya prisuzhdayetsya Amerikanskoy psikhologicheskoy assotsiatsiyey. Kniga «Spotykayas‘ o schast‘ye» — eto nastoyashchiy bestseller. Ona perevedena na 25 yazykov. A v 2007 godu Korolevskoye obshchestvo britanskoy natsional‘noy akademii nauk priznalo yeye luchshey knigoy goda. V etom trude vy ne naydete prostykh i bystrykh retseptov schast‘ya, poskol‘ku eto ponyatiye, po slovam avtora, efemerno, neopredelimo i sostoit iz mnozhestva sostavlyayushchikh: perezhivaniy, vospominaniy, oshchushcheniy, emotsiy i t.d. Schast‘ye nerazryvno svyazano s mozgom: zavisit ot nego, opredelyayetsya im, yego reaktsiyami na raznyye obstoyatel‘stva nashey zhizni. Gilbert rasskazyvayet o zakonomernostyakh nashego myshleniya i vospriyatiya, kotoryye delayut nas schastlivymi ili neschastnymi. O nikh my i rasskazhem v nashem obzore.