Happiness

Expert: World Happiness Report 2025

keila.depape@mcgill.ca — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:57:42 +0000

World Happiness Report 2025, released Thursday, ranks countries based on survey data measuring people's self-reported life satisfaction. Canada, once among the top 10, has dropped from 6th place in 2013 to 18th in 2025, mirroring a wider decline among industrial nations.

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Expert: World Happiness Report 2024

keila.depape@mcgill.ca — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:02:39 +0000

The World Happiness Report reflects a worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and well-being as criteria for government policy. It reviews the state of happiness in the world today and shows how the science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness. The report’s release aligns with the United Nation’s International Day of Happiness, March 20, 2024. (World Happiness Report)

Surprising new evidence on happiness and wealth

katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:27:06 +0000

Global polls typically show that people in industrialized countries where incomes are relatively high report greater levels of satisfaction with life than those in low-income countries.

But now the first large-scale survey to look at happiness in small, non-industrialized communities living close to nature paints quite a different picture.

Looking at happiness in non-industrialized settings

Happiness really does come for free

katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:03:28 +0000

Economic growth is often prescribed as a sure way of increasing the well-being of people in low-income countries, but a study led by ��ϲ�� and the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) suggests that there may be good reason to question this assumption. The researchers set out to find out how people rate their subjective well-being in societies where money plays a minimal role, and which are not usually included in global happiness surveys.

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY | Happiness and the COVID Pandemic

amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 05 May 2020 18:49:38 +0000

« What has the science of happiness got to do with our current coronapocalypse? Plenty, of course. It is interesting that much of what is being discussed now about how to stay sane, connected, and even happy while locked up, or out of a job, is what economists studying “happiness” have been advocating for years. We all know at least some friends, colleagues, and family who have suffered tremendously from the isolation and disruption and, of course, many of us are struggling acutely as this post goes live.

Global well-being in coming decades hinges on non-material factors

laurie.devine@mcgill.ca — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:07:03 +0000

To improve people’s well-being as much as possible in coming decades, policy makers should look beyond narrow economic calculations and prioritize non-material factors when making big decisions.

WASHINGTON POST: People who live in small towns and rural areas are happier than everyone else, researchers say

laurie.devine@mcgill.ca — Fri, 18 May 2018 12:19:35 +0000

Heaven is wide open spaces — at least, it is for most people, according to a massive new data set of happiness in Canada.

A team of happiness researchers at the Vancouver School of Economics and ��ϲ�� University recently published a working paper on the geography of well-being in Canada. They compiled 400,000 responses to a pair of national Canadian surveys, allowing them to parse out distinctions in well-being at the level of more than 1,200 communities representing the country's entire geography.

Quiz: how does your city affect your happiness?

kaviyanka.selvasandran@mail.mcgill.ca — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:20:39 +0000