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...recent Harpers’ Findings testifies to the knowledge that science can still provide: natural disasters have quadrupled in the past two decades, thousands of Australian crocodiles suffer from Chlamydia, obesity increases the risk of gingivitis, and sex makes people happier than money...
...many ways but cutting edge social science shows that we blunder and that our blunders make us poorer, less happy, and less healthy. The good news is that we are nudgeable through acts by private companies and governments. We can be nudged in directions that make us less poor, happier and healthier...
...name, but Tal Ben-Shahar, professor of the popular Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology” course, is someone Harvard people love. Class enrollment shows Harvard people choose Justice over happiness, but according to the Q Guide, Ben-Shahar’s students are “HAPPIER...
...Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn ’99, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, the report used a combination of real-life and laboratory data to conclude that people who give money to others—no matter how little—are happier than people who do not. “We were interested in studying happiness by seeing people’s actions rather than their circumstances,” Dunn said. “Instead of focusing on how much money they make, we looked at how they used...
...project: a positive psychology-based, online public forum allowing users to post five happy thoughts a day. Launched in early March, www.butterbeehappy.com was inspired by the teachings of Harvard lecturer Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96. After reading Ben-Shahar’s book, “Happier,” Pounders sought to spread the word about his happiness-generating technique. “I wanted to give people an outlet to write about their happy thoughts,” says Pounders, who has founded multiple Internet projects, including a national tree-selling business. Site members record...