This Emotional Life

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  • Porcupine Love

    Elizabeth Gilbert on relationships
  • Sorting out the good from the bad

    Dr. John Norcross on the dangers of self-help
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  • Fleeting moment or state of being?

    America Ferrara, ponders whether happ
  • Happiness demystified

    According to Larry David religious people are happier, at lea
  • Happiness? What happiness?

    For actor John Leguizamo, happiness is finding enjoyment in life's struggles.
  • Life's a rigged game

    Cartoonist Roz Chast claims that life is a "rigged game" and wonders if happiness is
  • Moments of absolute absorption

    Writer Adam Gopnik finds happiness in being "vigilantly absorbed in some activity."

About This Emotional Life

This 3-part series represents what television does best. It opens a window into real lives, exploring ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals. Hosted by Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness.