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Psychologists and others who try to study happiness scientifically often focus on the connection between positive thinking and better health.
"People ask why I study happiness," Gilbert says, "and I say, 'Why study anything else?' It's the holy grail.
After college, she moved west to study at Stanford, where her graduate school adviser, Lee Ross, took her for a walk in the school's Rodin sculpture garden and suggested she study happiness.
After years researching inequality and unemployment, he became one of the first economists to study happiness, chairing the World Economic Forum's global agenda council on health and wellbeing at Davos in 2011 and co-editing a world happiness report in 2012 and 2013.
gilbert's papers on affective forecasting began to appear in the late 1990's, but the idea to study happiness and emotional prediction actually came to him on a sunny afternoon in October 1992, just as he and his friend Jonathan Jay Koehler sat down for lunch outside the psychology building at the University of Texas at Austin, where both men were teaching at the time.
In the study, "happiness" meant whatever the person who filled out the survey wanted it to mean.
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Over the past few decades, teams of researchers have been studying happiness.
"At the time," Dr. Lyubomirsky recalled, "only one person was studying happiness: Ed Diener.
A professor in Harvard's department of psychology, Gilbert likes to tell people that he studies happiness.
The economist George Loewenstein, of Carnegie Mellon, has said that anyone studying happiness was bound to end up leaning left.
(In contrast, two psychologists who have studied happiness -- Ed Diener and David G. Myers -- have emphasized in their work that happiness is actually very similar across genders, ages and races).
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