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What is happiness anyway? (Image: Kris Snibbe/Harvard)
Psychologist Daniel Gilbert knows exactly how happy 5000 people around the world are right now. What has he learned about our ups and downs?
What’s so tough about studying happiness?
One problem is that researchers often measure different things and then talk about them as though they were interchangeable measures of the same thing. We can measure how happy someone is in the moment or how satisfied they are with their lives, and while both are interesting, they are not the same.…
