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Inequality, Consumption, & Happiness

Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co From the IHS Vault: How well-off are we? Using economic data, economics professor Steve Horwitz addresses questions about inequality, consumption, happiness, and well-being. Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Is there income mobility in the United States? Are Americans happy? Are we “objectively” better off than we used to be? This lecture was taped in 2010 at the IHS summer seminar, “Morality, Capitalism, & Freedom” at Wake Forest University. Watch more videos: lrnlbty.co

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How Facebook Can Affect Your Sense of Happiness

From voaspecialenglish.com | http An American study suggests that social media can affect your thinking about other people. We asked young people how many friends they have on Facebook. COLLEGE STUDENTS: “I’ve never actually, like, stopped and looked at it. Probably somewhere between, like, 350 and 400 — I don’t know.” “I would definitely be on Facebook all the time, like, ‘Wow, she’s here, he’s there.’” “Yeah, I’m a heavy user. I rely a lot on it. I find myself checking it multiple times a day.” Researchers at Utah Valley University wanted to explore if the amount of time spent on Facebook affected how users saw others. They asked college students if other people have better and happier lives. And, how long they had used the website and how many hours a week they spend following Facebook friends. The study found students who were more involved with Facebook were more likely to think other people’s lives were happier. Psychologist Tod Kashdan read the Utah findings. TOD KASHDAN: “They’re hearing all these great things happening from other people and feeling that they’re making a downward comparison to themselves. Such that they’re viewing themselves as ‘My life isn’t as interesting or satisfying as other people’s lives look like’.” It is easy to think that one’s Facebook friends are always happy because they usually tell only about good things in their lives. Some students say they understand that someone’s Facebook profile may not show the whole truth about the person …

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TEDxBloomington – Shawn Achor – "The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance"

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and CNN Radio, and he travels around the United States and Europe giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 corporations, schools, and non-profit organizations. Achor graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a BA in English and Religion and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. Now he is the CEO of Aspirant, a Cambridge-based consulting firm which researches positive outliers-people who are well above average-to understand where human potential, success and happiness intersect. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, he clearly and humorously describes to organizations how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures. In Shawn’s TEDxBloomington presentation, he says that most modern research focuses on the average, but that “if we focus on the average, we will remain merely average.” He wants to study the positive outliers, and learn how not only to bring people up to the average, but to move the entire average up. www.aspirantworld.com About …

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Right Wing Christians Happier (Study)

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Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk who has taught graduate level courses on Buddhism at several universities in the United States, including Georgetown University, American University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also written extensively on the subject of Buddhism. He teaches that happiness is dependent on the law of cause and effect.

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Buddhism and Happiness