Nancy Etcoff: Happiness and its surprises
TED Talk: Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness — the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it’s untethered to our real circumstances, and its surprising effect on our bodies.
Nancy Etcoff is part of a new vanguard of cognitive researchers asking: What makes us happy? Why do we like beautiful things? And how on earth did we evolve that way?
Video Source:http://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_etcoff_on_happiness_and_why_we_want_it.html