Introduction
Part
1: Brain and Meaning: The Foundation of Life
Chapter
1. The Evolution of Brains
Chapter
2. Cognitive Processes: Foundation of the Meaning of Life
Chapter
3. Interpretation: A General Way to Understand the World
Part
2: The Pitfalls of Thinking
Chapter
4. Cognitive Distortions: Mistakes in Information Processing
Chapter
5. How to Identify Cognitive Distortions
Chapter
6. Incomplete Selection of Information
Chapter
7. A Few More Thinking Biases
Chapter
8. A First Tool: Acceptation
Chapter
9. Prejudice, Stereotypes and other Ready-to-Think
Chapter
10. Daily Problems from False Beliefs
Chapter
11. Collective False Beliefs: The Rumour Effect
Part
3: On the Way to Happiness
Chapter
12. Understanding Metacognition
Chapter
13. Consciousness and Metacognition
Chapter
14. Cognitive Processes and Metacognition
Chapter
15. Friends and Foes of Metacognition
Chapter
16. Neutralizing Cognitive Distortions
Chapter
17. How to Apply Metacognition Everyday
Chapter
18. How to Improve Beneficial Effects of Metacognition
Part
4: Four Seasons in Happiness
Chapter
19. Preferring Effectual Beliefs and Adaptive Behaviour
Chapter
20. For a More Conscious Happiness
Chapter
21. Securing our Emergent Well-being
Conclusion
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