April 30, 2006
The Happiness Formula:
There’s a new six-part series starting on BBC 2 this week called The Happiness Formula, and the companion website has all sorts of features including on-line video clips, happiness tests, and an article about the science of happiness.
Glancing through, it looks like among the key contributors are well-being psychologist Ed Diener, positive psychologist Martin Seligman, and Emeritus Professor of Economics Lord Layard, who’s been making a lot of noise recently in an effort to get the UK government to provide more therapists. Layard also wrote a book a few years ago called Happiness: Lessons from a new science.
The series comes at a time when there are increasing calls for the population's happiness, rather than it's prosperity, to be used as the main measure of the government's success.
Link to The Happiness Formula Website.
Link to article on the science of happiness.
Link to happiness test.
