The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-BeingPhilosophers defend theories of what well being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it, while psychologists learn about well being but lack a theory of what it is. In The Good Life, Michael Bishop brings together these complementary investigations and proposes a powerful, new theory for understanding well being. The network theory holds that to have well being is to be stuck in a self perpetuating cycle of positive emotions, attitudes,