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...Shahar Blame it on his layered accent, his unassuming presence, or his exotic name, but Tal Ben-Shahar, professor of the popular Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology?? course, is someone Harvard people love. Class enrollment shows Harvard people choose Justice over happiness, but according to the Q Guide, Ben-Shahar’s students are “HAPPIER...
...materials on the Web as a happy development.“I see it as a win-win-win. For students, for the environment, and for the teaching staff,” said Tal Ben-Shahar, the psychology lecturer who teaches the popular Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology?? in an e-mailed statement. “And it is easier to have the readings online rather than creating a source book.”Instead of choosing to go through a traditional publisher, professor James G. Anderson provides the textbook he wrote for free for Physical...
...material that makes students so happy with Professor Ben-Shahar? FM sat down with guru of glee to discover more about his course, happiness, and how to handle a lonely Valentine’s Day.1.FM: What do you enjoy most about your class, “Positive Psychology???Tal Ben-Shahar: I enjoy most when students tell me that the class is making a difference or has made a difference in their lives. This is the reason why I teach. When they tell me they are happier or were able to understand something about themselves or their lives...
...Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do,” by Judith Rich Harris “Passions Within Reason,” by Robert H. Frank “The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are, The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology?? and “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny,” by Robert Wright
...worth remembering that the current program actually stifles many Harvard students’ personal quests for breadth. The faculty must agree it is bizarre that the current system, supposedly meant to acquaint students with various disciplines, ignores courses such as Psychology 1, “Introduction to Psychology?? and History 20a, “Western Intellectual History.” Expanding the list of accepted departmental courses is, in fact, another goal to be phased in as part of the new Gen Ed program. Without quick action, though, room for breadth in course selection is just another benefit...