Emotion Hacks - by Ryan Martin (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Master your emotions and learn to be happy through 50 science-backed and highly accessible strategies from The Anger Professor Dr Ryan Martin.

The Anger Professor Dr Ryan Martin shares easy research-driven hacks to help you manage your emotions and improve your day-to-day life. His goal is to show that small changes to lifestyle, diet, sleep and ways of thinking will create real and beneficial changes in the way you experience fear, sadness, anger, happiness and the other emotions. This step-by-step guide to great emotional management will enable you to:

• Understand the science of emotions - to enable you to hack them.
• Interpret emotions as signals that guide behaviour and decision-making.
• Learn how emotions develop in stages - 1. the stimulus; 2. your pre-existing mood; 3. your appraisal; 4. feelings; 5. actions - so you can intervene.
• Manage other people's emotions.
• Deploy 50 easy and effective emotion hacks that will enable you to deal with any challenging situation, eg Identify Your Patterns, Avoid Catastrophizing, Pay Attention to Self-directed "Shoulds", Refocus Positively - and many more!

Rooted in psychological research and everyday experience, How to Feel Better Fast will enable you to work with the science of happiness. It's all about establishing healthy emotional habits: small changes that will lead to seismic changes in your state of mind.

Review Quotes

"A groundbreaking and refreshingly human guidebook for identifying and understanding why we feel what we feel - and how to instantly start feeling better using Martin's handy, commonsense and stunningly effective hacks."
- Noah Michelson, director of HuffPost Personal

"Shockingly practical and a joy to read. As a psychologist, I find most mental health advice to be either too academic and dense or overly-simplistic and superficial. But Emotion Hacks gives the best of both worlds: simple, practical advice for managing difficult emotions based on a deep understanding of how the mind actually works. I enjoyed it thoroughly and will be recommending it often."
- Nick Wignall, PhD, psychologist, writer and entrepreneur

"a must-read for both the general public and mental health professionals ... a vital toolkit."
- Dr Kate Balestrieri, licensed psychologist, founder of Modern Intimacy, author of What Happened to My Sex Life?

"once you've made it through the book - you realize how much you've learned, how much you've grown and how much you're ready for a return trip."
- Christopher Gabriel, award-winning radio host on KMJ Radio

"a must for anyone who hopes to identify patterns in their emotions and responses - and stop the unhelpful ones in their tracks"
- Allie Volpe, correspondent at Vox

About the Author

Dr Ryan Martin is Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of the international bestsellers Why We Get Mad and How to Deal with Angry People. In his work in emotion, he draws on over 20 years of research, teaching and clinical experience. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Psychology Today, on NPR's Invisibilia podcast and on BBC Radio's The Digital Human. His TED talk Why We Get Mad has been viewed 3.5 million times since June 2019. Find out more about Ryan at: www.alltheragescience.com