Happiness Research News Digest for March 13, 2010
Posted by: newsbot | Mar-13-2010 | File Under: News
Google News (happiness research) items for March 13, 2010:
•Laurence Cohen & Gina Barreca Irreconcilable Differences – Hartford Courant
•Tiffin-box scheme sees healthier kids – Times of India
The Hartford Courant piece is worth reading, based on Justin Wolfers & Betsy Stevenson’s paper detailing that men are happier than women on average. I thought this was interesting.
“Larry, why does it surprise you that researchers looking into the emotional lives of human beings are female? Most men aren’t interested in emotional lives. ”
In many surveys, men are more concerned with productivity/agentic/competence related goals and women are concerned with relational/well-being/social/communal goals. It’s interesting that this knowledge is implicit in most people. Perhaps social psychology is a bit of the study of the obvious…:)
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