Are We Happier When We Stay In The Moment?
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Friday, February 14, 2014
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Matt Killingsworth speaking at TEDxCambridge in 2011.
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Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Simply Happy.
About Matt Killingsworth's TED Talk
When are humans most happy? To answer this question, researcher Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the results: We're often happiest when we're lost in the moment.
About Matt Killingsworth
Researcher Matt Killingsworth designs studies that gather data on happiness. While doing his Ph.D. research at Harvard, Killingsworth invented the Track Your Happiness app.
He's now a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar examining such topics as the relationship between happiness and the content of everyday experiences, the percentage of everyday experiences that are intrinsically valuable, and the degree of congruence between the causes of momentary happiness and of one's overall satisfaction with life.
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