Thesaurus / happiness
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Touch also increases levels of serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin—the hormones related to happiness.
THE PANDEMIC PROBLEM TECH CAN’T SOLVE: PHYSICAL TOUCHDANIELLE ABRILAUGUST 23, 2020FORTUNE
We hope you’ve been enjoying our wedding gift, the espresso machine, and we wish you many years of happiness together.
A GUIDE TO GIVING GIFTS FOR POSTPONED AND SHRUNKEN WEDDINGSBROOKE HENDERSONAUGUST 20, 2020FORTUNE
Researchers have argued for decades about whether certain facial expressions have evolved to express specific emotions, such as happiness, anger and disgust, regardless of one’s culture.
ANCIENT SCULPTURES HINT AT UNIVERSAL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS ACROSS CULTURESBRUCE BOWERAUGUST 19, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
It’s spawned so many other indexes of human well-being — the index of social progress, people talking about gross national happiness.
IS ECONOMIC GROWTH THE WRONG GOAL? (EP. 429)STEPHEN J. DUBNERAUGUST 13, 2020FREAKONOMICS
This transition makes even more sense when coupled with the idea of deviating from using GDP as a measure of societal growth, and instead adopting a well-being index based on universal human values like health, community, happiness, and peace.
By the way, happiness does start to decline when you’re older.
INTRODUCING “NO STUPID QUESTIONS” (EP. 422)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJUNE 18, 2020FREAKONOMICS
The effects on happiness — the curves are very interesting on those.
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL (EP. 417)STEPHEN J. DUBNERMAY 7, 2020FREAKONOMICS
According to the utilitarian, you cannot prefer your own or your son’s happiness over that of a stranger.
A PHILOSOPHER ANSWERS EVERYDAY MORAL DILEMMAS IN A TIME OF CORONAVIRUSLGBTQ-EDITORAPRIL 15, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWS
Norway, like the other Scandinavian countries, ranks among the world’s best in equality and — probably not coincidentally — in happiness.
DOES ANYONE REALLY KNOW WHAT SOCIALISM IS? (EP. 408)STEPHEN J. DUBNERMARCH 5, 2020FREAKONOMICS
Sometimes it amazes me that we do even as well as we do, that we can do even better than chance, for example, at predicting violence or predicting work performance or predicting happiness or longevity, given all the moving parts.
5 PSYCHOLOGY TERMS YOU’RE PROBABLY MISUSING (EP. 334 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 9, 2020FREAKONOMICS
WORDS RELATED TO HAPPINESS
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