Public policies in pursuit of happiness | Paul Dolan
Philosophy For Our Times
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Are You Finding Significant Differences in Happiness?
The most robust finding on age comes from thei satisfaction data. There's some suggestiong that young people experience less purpose than people in their early twenties. And yet, there's this kind of issue of purposeta, you know, that somehow they feel more overly satisfied. So is life satisfaction? Can it be at odds with how happy you feel day to day in your experience? Ye, i think it can. It could be cognitive dissonance. Ha, ha, ha. Thaagely, now i've got them, i'll go and find some way in which they're going to make me happy to stop me killing them.
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