The Best Happiness Genes - August 2022

Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt is currently the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and did post-doctoral research in the University of Chicago and at Orissa, India. He taught at the University of Virginia for 16 years, where he conducted the research reported from The Righteous Mind.

His study focuses on morality - its emotional foundations, cultural variations, and developmental class. He began his career researching the adverse moral emotions, such as disgust, shame, and vengeance, but proceeded on to the understudied positive moral emotions, such as admiration, awe, and moral elevation. He is the co-developer of Moral Foundations concept, and of the research site YourMorals.org. He uses his research to help individuals understand and honor the moral motives of the enemies (see CivilPolitics.org, and watch his 2008 TED speak). He was also the 2004 winner of this Virginia "Outstanding Faculty Award." He's the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, and also of The Righteous Mind: Why Good Men and Women are Divided by Faith and Religion. To learn more see www.JonathanHaidt.com.

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James D. Baird

James D. Baird, Ph.D. has over forty decades of experience as a successful graduate and journalist scientist. A leader in the new science of ultrasonics, Baird has made several patents and a successful entrepreneur based Dynasonics, Inc.. A design and manufacturing company of computers and sensors.

His inventor history instilled in him a persistent curiosity about how things work, translating out of mechanisms to life. His passion for knowing the bioengineering which makes us coupled with his spiritual and spiritual beliefs has led him to research the subject of happiness for at least 20 decades, and in the process, earned him a Ph.D. in Natural Health.

He was also the creator of "Happiness Ministries," a not-for-profit ministry which produced inspiring texts. His first two novels, The Happiness Plan (Liquori, 1990) as well as The Modern Christian's Happiness Plan (Wine Press 1999) are based upon the assumption that joy comes from philosophical ethics and behavioral choices that put into actions such spiritual qualities as loving-kindness and compassion. . Baird was involved with many organizations including; churches nursing homes and institutions. He was chairman of Catholic Charities for around 8 decades. Dr. Baird is currently chairman of a Chicago chapter of the American Scientific Association, a national professional association whose members are scientists who believe in God. The company's mission is to bring harmony to religion and science.

As a pure health advocate with an inventor's interest, he had been intrigued with the paradox that "diets do not work" In an effort to discover the motives and supply an answer, he composed his third book, The Mindful Meals Diet (iUniverse 2007), that explained how genetic factors will be the cornerstone of unhealthy eating habits which lead individuals to become overweight. His program incorporated str that was mind/body and self-hypnosis

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