Links posted on May 12, 2009
What Makes Us Happy? from The Atlantic is an article discussing a longitudinal study of the lives of a group of Harvard men starting in the 1930's and continuing even today. The underlying and fascinating question is "What does it take to live a happy and fulfilling life?" The equally interesting B-story discusses how the field of psychology and its methods has changed since the days of measuring head size. (I suspect there is enough tired methodology from the early days and simplification of explanation to drive TheWestIsTheBest up the wall).