# Professor Jonathan Haidt discusses the concept of happiness from his book, "The Happiness Hypothesis"

1 Faculty News April 15, 2016 ![Today Show logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/today.jpg?itok=lLgvk7Ak)>

Excerpt from [Today](http://www.today.com/health/happiness-fueled-relationships-work-something-larger-self-t86686) -- "'True happiness comes when you get three kinds of relationships right,' \[[Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt)\] told TODAY. 'The one between yourself and others, between yourself and work or something productive and between yourself and something larger than yourself.'"

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