I am currently reading Delivering Happiness which discusses how Tony Hsieh applied principles of happiness to build a billion dollar company, so I wanted to revisit some of the recent happiness research that is really fascinating. Here are my favorite presentations on happiness research.
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Lecture on Happiness by Dacher Keltner from Psychology 156 Fall 2008 at UC Berkeley: (Click on link for Lecture 29 and Lecture 30)
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=2008-D-74501&semesterid=2008-D