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Daniel L. Schacter

Daniel Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Dan received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He subsequently developed a keen interest in amnesic disorders associated with various kinds of brain damage. He continued his research and education at the University of Toronto, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. He taught on the faculty at Toronto for the next six years before joining the psychology department at the University of Arizona in 1987. In 1991, he joined the faculty at Harvard University. His research explores the relation between conscious and unconscious forms of memory, the nature of distortions and errors in remembering, and how we use memory to imagine future events. Many of Schacters studies are summarized in his 1996 book, Searching for Memory: The Brain, The Mind, and The Past, and his 2001 book, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, both winners of the APAs William James Book Award. Schacter has also received a number of awards for teaching and research, including the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association. In 2013, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Daniel T. Gilbert

Daniel Gilbert is Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. After attending the Community College of Denver and completing his B.A. from the University of Colorado, Denver, he went on to earn his Ph.D. from Princeton University. From 1985 to 1996, he taught at the University of Texas, Austin, and in 1996, he joined the faculty of Harvard University. He has received the American Psychological Associations Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, the Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology, and has won teaching awards that include the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize and the Harvard College Professorship. His research focuses on how and how well people think about their emotional reactions to future events. He is the author of the international best seller Stumbling on Happiness, which won the Royal Societys General Prize for best popular science book of the year, and he is the co-writer and host of the PBS television series, This Emotional Life.

Matthew Nock

Matthew Nock is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Matt received his BA from Boston University in 1995 and his PhD from Yale University in 2003. He completed his clinical internship at Bellevue Hospital and the New York University Child Study Center, and then joined the faculty of Harvard University in 2003. While an undergraduate, he became interested in understanding why people do things to intentionally harm themselves, and he has been conducting research to answer that question ever since. His research is multidisciplinary and uses a wide range of methodological approaches (e.g., epidemiologic surveys, laboratory-based experiments, clinic-based studies, and most recently studies using data from smartphones and wearable sensors) to understand how these behaviors develop, how to predict them, and how to prevent their occurrence. He has received many teaching awards at Harvard, as well as four Early Career awards recognizing his research. In 2011, he was named a MacArthur “Genius” Award winner.

Laurie Santos

Laurie Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University. In addition to her work on the evolutionary origins of human cognition, Laurie is an expert on the science of happiness and the ways in which our minds lie to us about what makes us happy. Her Yale course, Psychology and the Good Life, teaches students how the science of psychology can provide important hints about how to make wiser choices and live a life that’s happier and more fulfilling. The class became Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years, with almost one out of four students enrolled. Her course has been featured in The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, GQ Magazine, Slate and O! Magazine. The online version of the class — The Science of Well-Being on Coursera.org — has attracted more than 4.5 million learners from around the world. A winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching, she was recently voted as one of Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10” young minds, and was named in Time Magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity.” Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, is a top-3 Apple podcast which has attracted 150+ million downloads since its launch.

Discover What's Inside! Review a sample chapter: Chapter 16: Happiness, Well-being, and Positive Psychology from Schacter, Psychology, Seventh Edition.

Preface

Chapter 1 The Evolution of Psychological Science

Chapter 2 Methods in Psychology

Chapter 3 Neuroscience and Behavior

Chapter 4 Sensation and Perception

Chapter 5 Consciousness

Chapter 6 Memory

Chapter 7 Learning

Chapter 8 Emotion and Motivation

Chapter 9 Language, Thought, and Intelligence

Chapter 10 Development

Chapter 11 Personality

Chapter 12 Social Psychology

Chapter 13 Stress and Health

Chapter 14 Psychological Disorders

Chapter 15 Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Chapter 16 Positive Psychology and the Science of Well-Being

Essentials of Statistics for Psychological Science

Glossary

References

Name Index

Subject Index

Product Updates

Summer 2026

New in Achieve

Foundational Skills Modules (AI ethics, AI basics, note-taking, time management, using APA style and reading research). Assignable modules to help remediate core skills that you may not be able to fit into class time.
Data Literacy Activities (visual data, ethics, methods, statistics). Five new modules paired with the five existing modules allow these important skills to be assigned and assessed inside Achieve.
AI-Enabled Guided Reading - Transforms textbook reading into an assignable interactive learning experience where students explain concepts in their own words and receive personalized, real-time feedback. By turning reading into a guided conversation, it builds deeper understanding and engagement without adding instructor workload.
AI-Enabled Guided Quiz Review - Helps students focus on mastering concepts rather than guessing, delivering personalized formative feedback between quiz attempts. By guiding students through their learning journey, it strengthens understanding and improves performance—without adding extra work for instructors.
Short-Form Writing Tool Turn virtually any content—a video, webpage, PDF, policy document, article, or other source—into a short, meaningful writing assignment in minutes. Built-in AI helps instructors create or refine the prompt, instantly generate a clear rubric, and evaluate student submissions against that rubric.
Late Night Lectures with Professor Steve Ross—short, humorous, and engaging concept videos. Five NEW videos added in Summer of 2026 covering: History of Psychology, Experiments, Neurotransmitters, Attribution, and Study Tips.

Updates to the Seventh Edition

Updated Data Literacy & Neuroscience coverage in the text, along with 10 new activities in Achieve that build data literacy skills for students.
New co-author, Laurie Santos (Yale), has written a new “Positive Psychology and the Science of Well-Being” chapter (ch 16). Santos teaches the most successful course in Yale’s 300-year history.
The authors have reinvigorated the text’s main theme—for the love of science—with hundreds of new references with particular emphasis on AI research (in nearly every chapter), neuroscience (better than any other intro psych text), and data literacy updates. The neuroscience emphases are in text, but accompanied by new digital features in Achieve
Stronger alignment with APA Guidelines than ever before and updated MCAT coverage
New Late Night Lectures bring energy and humor to tough psychology topics, turning complex concepts into quick, five-minute lessons with the fun of a late-night talk show.
New Data Literacy activities are interactive, assignable, and gradable. Their focus on data literacy complements your teaching and promotes student readiness—for research, for graduate study, and for the job market.

Authors

Daniel L. Schacter

Daniel Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Dan received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He subsequently developed a keen interest in amnesic disorders associated with various kinds of brain damage. He continued his research and education at the University of Toronto, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. He taught on the faculty at Toronto for the next six years before joining the psychology department at the University of Arizona in 1987. In 1991, he joined the faculty at Harvard University. His research explores the relation between conscious and unconscious forms of memory, the nature of distortions and errors in remembering, and how we use memory to imagine future events. Many of Schacters studies are summarized in his 1996 book, Searching for Memory: The Brain, The Mind, and The Past, and his 2001 book, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, both winners of the APAs William James Book Award. Schacter has also received a number of awards for teaching and research, including the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association. In 2013, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Daniel T. Gilbert

Daniel Gilbert is Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. After attending the Community College of Denver and completing his B.A. from the University of Colorado, Denver, he went on to earn his Ph.D. from Princeton University. From 1985 to 1996, he taught at the University of Texas, Austin, and in 1996, he joined the faculty of Harvard University. He has received the American Psychological Associations Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, the Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology, and has won teaching awards that include the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize and the Harvard College Professorship. His research focuses on how and how well people think about their emotional reactions to future events. He is the author of the international best seller Stumbling on Happiness, which won the Royal Societys General Prize for best popular science book of the year, and he is the co-writer and host of the PBS television series, This Emotional Life.

Matthew Nock

Matthew Nock is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Matt received his BA from Boston University in 1995 and his PhD from Yale University in 2003. He completed his clinical internship at Bellevue Hospital and the New York University Child Study Center, and then joined the faculty of Harvard University in 2003. While an undergraduate, he became interested in understanding why people do things to intentionally harm themselves, and he has been conducting research to answer that question ever since. His research is multidisciplinary and uses a wide range of methodological approaches (e.g., epidemiologic surveys, laboratory-based experiments, clinic-based studies, and most recently studies using data from smartphones and wearable sensors) to understand how these behaviors develop, how to predict them, and how to prevent their occurrence. He has received many teaching awards at Harvard, as well as four Early Career awards recognizing his research. In 2011, he was named a MacArthur “Genius” Award winner.

Laurie Santos

Laurie Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University. In addition to her work on the evolutionary origins of human cognition, Laurie is an expert on the science of happiness and the ways in which our minds lie to us about what makes us happy. Her Yale course, Psychology and the Good Life, teaches students how the science of psychology can provide important hints about how to make wiser choices and live a life that’s happier and more fulfilling. The class became Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years, with almost one out of four students enrolled. Her course has been featured in The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, GQ Magazine, Slate and O! Magazine. The online version of the class — The Science of Well-Being on Coursera.org — has attracted more than 4.5 million learners from around the world. A winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching, she was recently voted as one of Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10” young minds, and was named in Time Magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity.” Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, is a top-3 Apple podcast which has attracted 150+ million downloads since its launch.

Discover What's Inside! Review a sample chapter: Chapter 16: Happiness, Well-being, and Positive Psychology from Schacter, Psychology, Seventh Edition.

Preface

Chapter 1 The Evolution of Psychological Science

Chapter 2 Methods in Psychology

Chapter 3 Neuroscience and Behavior

Chapter 4 Sensation and Perception

Chapter 5 Consciousness

Chapter 6 Memory

Chapter 7 Learning

Chapter 8 Emotion and Motivation

Chapter 9 Language, Thought, and Intelligence

Chapter 10 Development

Chapter 11 Personality

Chapter 12 Social Psychology

Chapter 13 Stress and Health

Chapter 14 Psychological Disorders

Chapter 15 Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Chapter 16 Positive Psychology and the Science of Well-Being

Essentials of Statistics for Psychological Science

Glossary

References

Name Index

Subject Index

Product Updates

Summer 2026

New in Achieve

Foundational Skills Modules (AI ethics, AI basics, note-taking, time management, using APA style and reading research). Assignable modules to help remediate core skills that you may not be able to fit into class time.
Data Literacy Activities (visual data, ethics, methods, statistics). Five new modules paired with the five existing modules allow these important skills to be assigned and assessed inside Achieve.
AI-Enabled Guided Reading - Transforms textbook reading into an assignable interactive learning experience where students explain concepts in their own words and receive personalized, real-time feedback. By turning reading into a guided conversation, it builds deeper understanding and engagement without adding instructor workload.
AI-Enabled Guided Quiz Review - Helps students focus on mastering concepts rather than guessing, delivering personalized formative feedback between quiz attempts. By guiding students through their learning journey, it strengthens understanding and improves performance—without adding extra work for instructors.
Short-Form Writing Tool Turn virtually any content—a video, webpage, PDF, policy document, article, or other source—into a short, meaningful writing assignment in minutes. Built-in AI helps instructors create or refine the prompt, instantly generate a clear rubric, and evaluate student submissions against that rubric.
Late Night Lectures with Professor Steve Ross—short, humorous, and engaging concept videos. Five NEW videos added in Summer of 2026 covering: History of Psychology, Experiments, Neurotransmitters, Attribution, and Study Tips.

Updates to the Seventh Edition

Updated Data Literacy & Neuroscience coverage in the text, along with 10 new activities in Achieve that build data literacy skills for students.
New co-author, Laurie Santos (Yale), has written a new “Positive Psychology and the Science of Well-Being” chapter (ch 16). Santos teaches the most successful course in Yale’s 300-year history.
The authors have reinvigorated the text’s main theme—for the love of science—with hundreds of new references with particular emphasis on AI research (in nearly every chapter), neuroscience (better than any other intro psych text), and data literacy updates. The neuroscience emphases are in text, but accompanied by new digital features in Achieve
Stronger alignment with APA Guidelines than ever before and updated MCAT coverage
New Late Night Lectures bring energy and humor to tough psychology topics, turning complex concepts into quick, five-minute lessons with the fun of a late-night talk show.
New Data Literacy activities are interactive, assignable, and gradable. Their focus on data literacy complements your teaching and promotes student readiness—for research, for graduate study, and for the job market.

For the Love of Science

The seventh edition offers a flexible, engaging introduction to psychological science by combining the comprehensive coverage of Psychology with the concise approach of Introducing Psychology.

Every chapter has been updated with current research, recent scientific developments, and contemporary examples that help students connect psychological concepts to today's world. This edition also welcomes Laurie Santos as a new co-author and introduces a new chapter on Happiness, Well-Being, and Positive Psychology.

The seventh edition also features a new Achieve course with integrated digital resources to support teaching and learning.

Achieve – Learn Psychology. Build Skills for Life.
We’re reimagining how psychology is taught and learned—focusing on the skills students need to succeed. Achieve combines engaging content with AI-powered tools to help students apply psychological concepts, and build habits that last beyond the course.

New in Achieve - For more information See Content Material:

Foundational Skills Modules (AI ethics, AI basics, note-taking, time management, using APA style and reading research)
Data Literacy Activities (visual data, ethics, methods, statistics)
AI-Enabled Guided Reading - makes reading truly assignable
AI-Enabled Guided Quiz Review - builds in practice between attempts
Short-Form Writing Tool with rubric-aligned prompts and auto-scoring feedback - turn any video or internet content into a short writing prompt.
Late Night Lectures with Professor Steve Ross—short, humorous, and engaging concept videos

Each activity is designed to build skills, increase engagement, and support student success.

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