John Helliwell - Enhancing Quality of Life: Latest Advances in the Science of Happiness
Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 19:00
February 28, 2012
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
SFU-Woodward’s Building, Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
3rd floor- 149 Hastings St W, Entrance off Cordova St
Tickets
$40 ($30 - student, senior) + applicable fee
Join UBC's John Helliwell, one of the leading minds investigating what makes us happy, for a special Speakers Series event. Dr. Helliwell's lecture will combine scientific evidence with stories to illustrate where research on happiness is heading, and how its results can be used to improve your quality of life.
The science of well-being embraces insights, evidence, and methods from many disciplines, ranging from psychology, philosophy, genetics, epidemiology and neuroscience to sociology, anthropology, political science and economics, all sharing Aristotle’s curiosity about what makes for a good life. The biggest recent innovation has been to replace top-down expertise by democratic attention to how people evaluate their own lives.
These reports are increasingly being used to assess the quality of life in families, workplaces, communities and nations, with many disciplines collaborating to figure out what makes people happy, and experimenting with different ways of adapting public institutions and private choices to improve the all-important social context.
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