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   How does Sonja Lyubomirsky find happiness?

   • Through controlled experiments, Sonja Lyubomirsky explores ways to beat the genetic set point for happiness. Staying in high spirits, she finds, is hard work The day I meet Sonja Lyubomirsky, she keeps getting calls from her Toyota Prius dealer. When she finally picks up, she is excited by the news: she can buy the car she wants in two days.

   The Science of Lasting Happiness | Scientific American

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   What is Lyubomirsky about?

   • Lyubomirsky will discuss what happiness is and isn’t, and what can be done to bring us all closer to the happy life we envision for ourselves. Drawing on her own groundbreaking research, Lyubomirsky offers a way to understand and tap our potential for joy and happiness, as well as our ability to sustain it in our lives.

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   Who is Sonja Lyubomirsky?

   • That’s one of the questions raised by The Myths of Happiness, the new book by Sonja Lyubomirsky. Lyubomirsky is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, and one of the leading researchers in the field of positive psychology.

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   How does Lyubomirsky define happiness?

   • Lyubomirsky's working definition of happiness--"a joyful, contented life"--gets at both the feelings and judgments necessary for overall happiness. (If a sleep-deprived new mom feels fulfilled but frazzled, and an aimless party girl feels empty despite loads of fun, neither would consider herself truly happy.)

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   When did Lyubomirsky start studying happiness?

   • Lyubomirsky began studying happiness as a graduate student in 1989 after an intriguing conversation with her adviser, Stanford University psychologist Lee D. Ross, who told her about a remarkably happy friend who had lost both parents to the Holocaust.

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   What is Lyubomirsky's subjective happiness scale?

   • From her firm belief that it is each person's self-reported happiness that matters, she developed a four-question Subjective Happiness Scale. Lyubomirsky's working definition of happiness--"a joyful, contented life"--gets at both the feelings and judgments necessary for overall happiness.

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   Feb 20, 2013 · Sonja Lyubomirsky explains what we misunderstand about happiness, and how we can get it right--part of Greater Good's podcast series.

3. www.mappmagazine.com › articles › lyubomirskyMore on the How of Happiness: An Interview with Sonja Lyubomirsky

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   Sep 12, 2023 · Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky has been studying how and why people can become happier for over 30 years. Her research includes cognitive, motivational, and behavioral processes in subjective happiness.

4. www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu › resourcesThe Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn ...

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   In The Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both successes (marriage, children, wealth) and challenges (divorce, financial ruin, illness) to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such events is perhaps the greatest threat to our long-term well-being.

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     The How of Happiness with Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD, at Happiness and Its Causes 2016

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     Happiness Habits - with Sonja Lyubomirsky

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     Sonja Lyubomirsky: What Determines Happiness?

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6. www.aspeninstitute.org › videos › sonja-lyubomirskySonja Lyubomirsky: The How of Happiness - The Aspen Institute

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   Sep 23, 2020 · Lyubomirsky will discuss what happiness is and isn’t, and what can be done to bring us all closer to the happy life we envision for ourselves. Drawing on her own groundbreaking research, Lyubomirsky offers a way to understand and tap our potential for joy and happiness, as well as our ability to sustain it in our lives.

7. www.scientificamerican.com › article › the-scienceThe Science of Lasting Happiness - Scientific American

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   Apr 1, 2007 · An experimental psychologist investigating the possibility of lasting happiness, Lyubomirsky understands far better than most of us the folly of pinning our hopes on a new car--or on any...

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   Oct 16, 2024 · Happiness has been a longstanding human concern and priority, from the philosophy of the ancient Greeks in 300 BC to the development of humanistic psychology in the 1960s primarily grounded in philosophical and qualitative approaches, and finally, to the emergence of positive psychology in the 1990s as an empirically-based field of inquiry into ...

9. sonjalyubomirsky.comSonja Lyubomirsky

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   Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness (published in 39 countries).