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This 3-part series represents what television does best. It opens a window into real lives, exploring ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals.

Hosted by Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness.

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This Emotional Life
Full episodes
42 VIDEOS

Your Friends' Friends Can Make You Happy

1:30 Air Date 01/04/10

Asperger's Syndrome

2:27 Air Date 12/31/09

The Price of Being Human

2:07 Air Date 12/31/09

Born on a Sunny Day

2:07 Air Date 12/31/09

A Special Emotion

0:58 Air Date 12/31/09

The First Connection

1:14 Air Date 12/31/09

Tennis Friends

0:46 Air Date 12/31/09

Career and friendship

0:37 Air Date 12/31/09

Choosing Friends

1:00 Air Date 12/31/09

You can't buy happiness

1:05 Air Date 12/31/09

Love's intensity

0:52 Air Date 12/31/09

The Rituals of Courtship

1:56 Air Date 12/31/09
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Previews
1 VIDEOS

Military Families Handbook Promo

1:00 Air Date 05/10/11