Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness

Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness

This One Day University class explores the role that money, IQ, marriage, friends, children, weather and religion play in making us feel happier.

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The UN’s “Happiness Report” rating nearly 200 countries found that the world’s happiest people live in Northern Europe (Denmark, Norway, Finland, and the Netherlands). The US ranked 11th. The report’s conclusion: that happiness has predictable causes and is correlated specifically to various measures that governments can regulate and encourage.

Is happiness stable over time? How can happiness be increased? Professor Catherine Sanderson, Chair of Psychology at Amherst College, will describe cutting-edge research from the field of positive psychology on the factors that do (and do not) predict happiness, and provide practical (and relatively easy!) ways to increase your own psychological well-being.

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