The Psychology of Happiness - The Science Behind What Actually Makes Us Happy

The Psychology of Happiness - The Science Behind What Actually Makes Us Happy
We first answer the question: what is happiness psychology? What is happiness? We then cover how to be happy and what makes us happy. There are happiness habits and positive psychology techniques that can help you find happiness in life. We explore what happiness means in psychology (distinguishing between hedonic pleasure and eudaimonic well-being) and how happiness affects the brain.
We take a closer look at how happiness is experienced across different cultures and why strong relationships are a critical component of well-being.
Happy people live longer and are generally healthier, which is why people search for psychological techniques for happiness and wonder why there are cultural differences in happiness.

My guest is Carol Graham, an expert on issues including poverty, inequality, insecurity, subjective well-being, and the economics of happiness. In Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford University Press, 2010; also published in Chinese, Portuguese, and Japanese), Graham explores what we know about the determinants of happiness across and within countries at different levels of development, including some counterintuitive and surprising relationships.

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