"Optimism research teaches us that we should expect the best and have a contingency plan for the worst."
Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science at the LSE. His main research interests are human behaviour and happiness, and the relationships between them, particularly as they apply to policy.
Dolan is author of the Sunday Times bestselling books Happiness by Design and Happy Ever After. His most recent work is Beliefism: How to Stop Hating the People We Disagree With. He is also the host and creator of the hit Duck / Rabbit podcast about the problems of polarisation in our society, and is the founder of the Lifetime Wellbeing Cooperative.
"Brilliant, wise, humane, scientific, and kind" — Cass R. Sunstein