We Have a High Rate of Suicides

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America punches below its weight for happiness, according to a new report. The country's high rate of suicides is due in large part to the availability of guns. There are things that seem to be in the structure of american experience that seems to strip us of our happiness, despite our wealth. And when you do look at other countries, the data flips, and there's other countries where parents are happier non parents.

Paul Bloom is a professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He was also the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University . Paul studies how children and adults make sense of the world, with a focus on pleasure, morality, religion, fiction, and art.

Paul's newest book is The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

Read more about Paul at his website: paulbloom.net.

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