Post-show happy links (actually, more like, during-show links…)

Thanks so much to Jennifer Michael Hecht for a great interview. You can peruse her website here.

Michael Shermer writes about happiness

Lecture by Richard Layard from the London School of Economics (he was mentioned in Shermer’s piece above)

Why Danes Are Smug: a comparative study of life satisfaction in the European Union

60 Minutes piece on the happy Danes (featuring an interview w/ one of the authors of the above study)

Author of Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert at TED talking about natural vs. synthesized happiness (why people mistakenly assume the former is more valid than the latter)

Explaining Happiness from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

The Science of Lasting Happiness from Scientific American

Update: you can listen to this episode online here.