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Happiness And The Pandemic
- Happiness inequality was already rising alongside income and wealth inequality in the years before COVID-19.
- During the pandemic, it appears that well-being became even more difficult for some than others.
- We have created institutions and policies to mitigate the impact of disease.
- The more stringent a country’s policies in restricting citizens’ movements and behavior, the worse they felt.
- These policies were situational, meaning that the circumstances made happiness seemingly impossible for the majority of people.
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Reckoning with Positivity
Positive psychology was once revolutionary for the way it turned away from studying and treating dysfunction in individuals toward examining the practices and traits that helped people to flourish
Unfortunately, this focus on the individual led many researchers and teachers to consciously r...
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Structures And Our Feelings
- Structural forces affect happiness.
- Slavery was a structural force, setting a pattern of social, cultural, economic, and interpersonal relationships between Black and white Americans that persists to this day.
- The family is a force structured by laws about marriage, divorce, ...
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Social Conditions and Inequality Affect Well-Being
- Recent studies have shown that events and forces at work today are making happiness less likely for many people, and widening "happiness gaps" between the most privileged and everyone else.
- People who study happiness and promote ways to get more of it keep emphasizing the same cluste...
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Happiness And Socio-Economic Conditions
- The evidence for how social forces can undermine or enhance happiness goes well beyond America's determination to marginalize and oppress racial minorities, revealing that any inequality hurts well-being.
- Groups (and often countries) with less power, income, or wealth just aren't as ...
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The Limits of Individual Solutions
Many organizations continue to emphasize "easy steps" and "quick fixes" that will make you as an individual happier.
These companies discount or underestimate the power of social forces in shaping our happiness and life satisfaction.
We need to look beyond tips and tools for i...
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