#1331 George Loewenstein - The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm joined by Dr. George Lowenstein. He is Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. And today we're going to talk about his book The Opposite of Happiness. How bad feeling z make. and break so Doctor Lovenstein, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one.
Thank you. It's a great pleasure for me as well. Uh okay, so What is the uh just to introduce your book, what would you say is the main remis of your book. I mean, what did you set out to Explore here.
Um Yeah, so It's a book about psychic misery. It's not about Things like um hunger and pain. It's about kind of psychic um pain.
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