3. Sonja Lyubomirsky - Beyond Belief 2008

Sonja Lyubomirsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her honors include a Faculty of the Year Award, Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, and a million-dollar grant from NIMH to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness. Her book, The How of Happiness, was released in January 2008 by Penguin Press and translated into 15 languages.

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This is from the Beyond Belief 2008 conference "Candles in the Dark." As the last installment of the Beyond Belief conferences, these videos address the most pressing topics of a society that truly aims at secularism at its core. Everything from human flourishing to politics are discussed at lengths by many of the greatest living minds.

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[ReligiousZombie]

Goddammit, where's the question and answer session? I'd like to know what causality, if any, exists. She seems to be implying that happiness causes success, when in reality it could be the other way around, or there could simply be correlation without causation.