# Professor Jonathan Haidt's book, "The Happiness Hypothesis," is highlighted

1 Faculty News January 24, 2016 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2016/01/24/the-curious-case-of-competition/#6b19e1163cc9) -- "When it comes to how evolution impacts our behavior today, there is no one who has influenced my thinking more than [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt). In his book *The Happiness Hypothesis*, he writes: 'Humans are partially hive creatures, like bees, yet in the modern world we spend nearly all our time outside of the hive.'"

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