Reminder — don’t latch onto one idea or one plan! Jeff Tetz and Elizabeth Dunn (@DunnHappyLab) discussed why multitasking and having multiple ideas on the go is a key strategy for finding success.

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1) Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity (Frontiers - Psychology)

2) Music Training & Nonmusical Abilities

3) How Can People Become Happier? A Systematic Review of Preregistered

In the latest episode of the Happiness Lab special season on happier ways to navigate the climate crisis, Elizabeth Dunn and Jiaying Zhao join Laurie Santos to explore how climate-friendly activities can make us feel more connected and fulfilled buff.ly/3HaVObF.

Ep 88! Elizabeth Dunn shares her work on the experiences that boost people's happiness, including a recent analysis of the research on popular recommendations for being happier.

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Congratulations to my amazing friend and collaborator Jiaying Zhao whose fabulous talk on our Happy Climate project was selected by @TEDtalks as one of the Top 10 Talks for a Better You in 2024! ted.com/playlists/843/…

What a heroic effort!

This seems important for faculty to know about, if you're assigning students to read articles and write papers about them...

Jordan is recruiting for her dissertation and we could use some help! I know the Twitterverse is dwindling but I'm hoping folks are still here to RT on our behalf! 🙏 Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD Virginia Sole-Smith Aubrey Gordon isn’t here

I recently joined the Technology & Social Behavior program housed in NU School of Comm + Northwestern Engineering -an amazing cross-disciplinary group of computational social scientists! Interested in a PhD in this area? See below for an information session this Thursday hosted by Nicholas Diakopoulos

Exciting news! We'll be doing a special live taping of The Happiness Lab podcast w/Elizabeth Dunn as part of the Yale University Ctr for Environmental Justice Conference on Environmental Joy on 10/27. Tix available here: bit.ly/EJTickets (Yalies use code YaleStudentJoy for free tix)

With #SESP wrapping up, it’s a good time to say I’m hoping to recruit a grad student (or 2!) this year! If you’re interested in guns, culture, or novels/reading, please reach out - I’d love to hear from you and chat about Madison.

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Looking to do a PhD or post-doc? Here's a great opportunity to work with one of the leading experts on loneliness, on a project of real-world importance.

Despite pop psych sentiments about groupthink, studies w/ a reasoning task found that while 15% of people were correct when they reasoned alone, 63% were correct following group discussion

Putting people in a group made them over 4x better at reasoning

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Dan Ariely’s research on dishonesty presented an optimistic view of human behavior. But a group of behavioral scientists believes some of his findings were too good to be true.
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It's tough to thread the needle just right on issues like this, but the world would be a better place if every leader was as thoughtful as my friend and collaborator Chris Anderson