The following is a scientific and personal article written by CAH member Troy Campbell about happiness. One lovely afternoon, I began chatting to my grandpa. I was completely unaware he was about to say something that would change my view of happiness…
Here’s my Q&A column from the WSJ this week — and if you have any questions for me, you can tweet them to @danariely with the hashtag #askariely, post a comment on my Ask Ariely Facebook page, or email them to AskAriely@wsj.com. ______________________________________________________ Dear Dan, I have worked very hard for…
From your own experience, are you more likely to finish half a pizza by yourself on a) Friday night after a long work week or b) Sunday evening after a restful weekend? The answer that most people will give, of course, is…
The realization of how relative happiness is became very apparent to me some years ago when I was in the burn department. One day a new patient came to the burn department — Miri, a teenage girl. Miri was 17 and her…
Recently I wrote a short summary of Christakis’s research for Time magazine 100 people of 2009. Here is my summary of the research: Social scientists used to have a straightforward, if tongue-in-cheek, answer to the question of how to become happy: Surround…
Given Valentine’s Day and the state of the market, let’s consider which approach to finding love is better: 1) the free market system where everyone can find their own date and figure out who and what is best for themselves; or 2)…