Cassie’s ground-breaking book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most is a bright, deeply relatable guide to recharging and the ultimate antidote to overscheduling. Cassie reveals why having too much free time is as unsatisfying as too little (two to five hours each day is best) and how to build days that aren’t just full—but fulfilling. Katy Milkman, 

bestselling author of How to Change, calls it “an absolute gem–useful, evidence-based, and a pleasure to read. Armed with the insights conveyed in Happier Hour, we can all find greater fulfillment in the time we have.” 

Cassie’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals such as Psychological Science and the Journal of Consumer Research. Popular accounts of her work have been featured on NPR and appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Scientific American, The Washington Post, and many more. Her research on “giving time” was featured in the New York Times. 

Magazine’s “32 Innovations that Will Change Your Tomorrow.” She was called one of the Best 40 Business Professors Under 40 in Poets & Quants. She received the Early Career Award for distinguished scholarly contributions to her field from the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. The course she developed and now teaches, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA’s most popular courses for MBAs and Executive MBAs. 

Previously, Cassie was a tenured faculty member and award-winning teacher at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Columbia. She’s also a faculty affiliate with The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute—an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the research, education, and practice of kindness.