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The biology of happiness
Author(s) -
Kováč Ladislav
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2012.26
Subject(s) - happiness , pleasure , destiny (iss module) , mechanism (biology) , environmental ethics , human biology , biology , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , philosophy , neuroscience , genetics , physics , astronomy
Happiness has become a major topic of interest for the social sciences and economists, yet biology has had little to say about this elusive emotion. As humans evolved to seek pleasure and avoid pain, how did this ancient survival mechanism determine human destiny in modern societies.