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Happiness… what do we know about it?

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Slides from a seminar which I led — translated to English. Lots of important points are missing... but hey.

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Page 1: What do we know about happiness

Happiness… what do we know about it?

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health

are three requirements for happiness,

though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

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Smart people against happiness:

Freud SartreSchopenhauer

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Smart people against happiness:

Every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Freud SartreSchopenhauer

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The intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Smart people against happiness:

Freud SartreSchopenhauer

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@#%$*$( happiness %^!#@(^*)!@#!@__*#@!^#!!!!

Smart people against happiness:

Freud SartreSchopenhauer

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359,295

242,134

93,381

23,79043,52938,349

4,247933

Courage Fear Happiness Depression Prophy-lactics

Therapy Good BAD

Amount of articles in psychology magazines from 1887 to 2003:

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Who needs happiness?

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They do:

Martin Seligman

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Daniel Gilbert

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Ed Diener

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They are positive psychologists

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They research happiness(maybe not exactly this way)

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Intellect Money Income Love All the rest…?

They research, how happiness links to...

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For instance:

Source: Lisa Simpson

Is it true, that only fools are happy?

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Is this happiness?

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Actually…

HAPPINESS I N T E L L I G E N C E

There’s a mildly positive correlation between happiness and intelligence.

Source: Choi and Veenhoven (2008)

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Is it true that happiness leads

to laziness?

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Source: Lyubomirsky, King, Diener (2005)

Actually, happy people are

MORE achievement oriented.

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In companies, where happy people work…

Source: Harter, Schmidt (2002)

ProfitsProductivityCustomer

satisfactionPersonnelturnover

Work-related injuries

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Happy people earn more:

Source: Diener, 2008

Happy in 1976: Income in 1990:

$50,000

$65,000

:-(

:-)

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Does money bring happiness?

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Text

To some extent — yes

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êÓÒÒËfl

If everybody’s poor — 

there’s no difference.

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the happierThe richer —

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êÓÒÒËflNobody to envy again.

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The real income increased by 100%, but the happiness level is…

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In the US, as of today:

Source: Lucas and Schimmack (forthcoming)

Happiness

level

Income, thousand US$ per year

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

< 10 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 150 > 200

7.856.38

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Money could make

you happier, but if

they are TOO

important for you...

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Source: Diener and Oishi (2000)

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Source: Diener and Oishi (2000)

If you are concerned with money

you are more likely to be unhappy.

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Happiness is in marriage!

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Family life Friends Work Income

15%26%22%

37%

It’s a popular opinion…

Source: Loewenstein

What makes you happy?

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Marriage correlates with happiness

10%

Married

are happier than

single

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Source: Diener (2008)

Got divorced

Got married

However, there are some nuances…

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The effect lasts for ~ 2 years

Wedding!...

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Children:Small negative impact*

Source: Gilbert, 2007*Yes, that’s shocking!

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Exception: women with their first child

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Source: Myers, 1992

Friends are more reliable: if you can name 5 or more close friends you are 60% more likely to be very happy.

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Good health is essential!

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Typical emotions of a recovering patient

Source: Diener (2008)

Point of recovery

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Gerald is the happiest person

I ever met.

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Age

Happiness

Source: BHPS

Older people are happier!

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True happiness

lies in faith.

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Percentage of very happy people in the US:

Atheists Former believers Believers New believers

41%36%

21%16%

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But this is true only for religious countries. (Also, non-religious Denmark and Netherlands are happier than the US.)

Denmark

Afghanistan

India

Nepal

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So where is it?

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Factors that affect happiness:

Genes

Income

Employment

Family status

Health

Age

Religiousness

Hedonic affectFlowMeaning of life

Source: Lyubomirsky (2008), consensus estimate

40%

10%

50%

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Pleasures bring happiness (nothing new)

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(people adapt easily)

But not the purchases — activities!

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Source: Fontane (1996)

Start exercising:

+12%to the happiness level

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minus 8% for every hour if less than 8 hours

Sleep enough:

Source: Pilcher, Ott (1998)

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Sex* = a lot of happiness

* with someone you like ;-) Source: Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz and Stone (2003)

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Happiness is in the FLOW

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Flow

Source: Csikszentmihalyi (1975)

Too boring

Too hard

Skills

Challenge

The flow is a psychological state where things just happen…

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+28%Source: Thakar and Misra (1995)

Work that you like:

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Can do

Want to do

There’s a market for that

Source: loosely adapted from Jim Collins’ Good to Great

Stop doing!

Practice!

Monetize!

Happiness

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There’s only one thing you need

to know about sustained

individual success: "Discover

what you don't like doing and

stop doing it."— Marcus Buckingham

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Happiness is finding the meaning of life

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Does your life have meaning?

Yes No

Source: Lepper, 1996

30%

70% 30%

70%

Happy

Unhappy

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— Daniel Dennett

(he’s an atheist)

The secret of happiness is finding something bigger than

you and devoting your life to it.

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What’s YOUR Holy Grail?

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What are you SEEKING?(maybe not exactly this way)

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