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California: happy or miserable?
Pasadena (CA) road graffitti (Photo: Milena Kremakova/Idle Ethnographer TM) Yet another take on the happiness/misery debate. Are weather and housing prices the most important reasons to be happy?...
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Trees and happiness
A recent report unearthed an empirical link between happiness and …trees. I wonder if Christmas trees could also help us be happy? Read the article in the Guardian here. A Christmassy tree that made...
View ArticleGetting out of the mess of life
The title of this post comes from Ian Craib’s wonderful book The Importance of Disappointment, which I wrote about a couple of months ago. His concern is with a contemporary inability, pervasive to the...
View ArticleThe psychology of your future self
This talk by Daniel Gilbert is excellent. He argues that human beings exhibit a pervasive tendency to see their present selves as the culmination of a process of becoming who they are. In doing so they...
View ArticleWell-Being, Society and Crisis Symposium
BSA Regional Postgraduate Symposium, Leicester 4th June 2015...
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An interview with Will Davies about his new book The Happiness Industry and the many issues addressed within it:
View ArticleHow else to know people?
This is an extract from The Happiness Industry by William Davies. If you find it interesting then you’ll like this podcast. Psychology and social science are perfectly possible, under the sorts of...
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The Happy Forecast and the quantification of emotion
A new project has just been launched which aims at quantifiying and comparing the happiness of different areas of London. The Happy Forecast purports to offer an answer to the question “Which areas of...
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Cultures of Wellbeing: Method, Place, Policy
More information on the Palgrave website here.
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